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 IV.

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Eliza's Sorrows--Preparation to Embark--Driven Through the Streets of Washington--Hail, Columbia--The Tomb of Washington--Clem Ray--The Breakfast on the Steamer--The happy Birds--Aquia Creek--Fredericksburgh--Arrival in Richmond--Goodin and his Slave Pen--Robert, of Cincinnati--David and his Wife--Mary and Lethe--Clem's Return--His subsequent Escape to Canada--The Brig Orleans--James H. Burch, 54