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 VI.

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Freeman's Industry--Cleanliness and Clothes--Exercising in the Show Room--The Dance--Bob, the Fiddler--Arrival of Customers--Slaves Examined--The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans--Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe--Parting of Randall and Eliza--Small-Pox--The Hospital--Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen--The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt--Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily, 78