# The Freedmen's Book

Author: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38479

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Freedmen%27s+Book+Child&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

blacksmith; because slaves who worked well at a trade could be let out with more profit to their masters, and would also bring a higher price if sold. Before their time was out, their master became hard pressed for money. Accordingly, he sold the young blacksmith, and mortgaged William and his sister, a girl of fourteen. When the time of the mortgage was up, their master had no money to redeem them, and they were placed on the auction-block, to be sold to the highest bidder. The girl was sold first, and bought by a planter who lived some distance in the country. William was strongly attached to his sister; and when he saw her put into a cart, to be carried away from him forever, it seemed...

## Chapters

- [did. Friends soon came, and gave them a hearty welcome; but they all](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedmen-s-book-38479/chapters/2/index.md)
- [did. William was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, and his brother to a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-freedmen-s-book-38479/chapters/1/index.md)