Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

CHAPTER III.

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Painful Meditations--James H. Burch--Williams' Slave Pen in Washington--The Lackey, Radburn--Assert my Freedom--The Anger of the Trader--The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails--The Whipping--New Acquaintances--Ray, Williams, and Randall--Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen--Maternal Sorrows--The Story of Eliza, 40