apostolic number and brought them up to the extent of her ability,
until she had graduated hundreds. A number of them wrote their own
passes and started for Canada, and she supposes succeeded, as they
were never heard from. She was sold after her master's death, and
brought to Mississippi, and placed on a plantation as a field-hand;
but, not being used to field-work, she found it impossible to keep up
with the old hands, and the overseer whipped her severely.

"O, how I longed to die!" she told me; "and sometimes I thought I
would die from such cruel whippings upon my bared body. O, what a vale
of tears this was for poor me! But one thing kept me from sinking, and
that was the presence of my dear Savior."

Her health so far gave way that she reeled with weakness as she went
to and from her work; and her master saw she was failing, and gave her
permission, to go into the kitchen a part of the time.

"O, how thankful I was," she went on, "for this promotion! and I
worked as hard to keep it as any Congressman could work for some high
office."

At length her night-school project leaked out, and was for a time
suspended; but it was not known that seven of the twelve years since
leaving Kentucky had been spent in this work. Much excitement over her
night-school was produced. The subject was discussed in their
legislature, and a bill was passed, that it should not be held illegal
for a slave to teach a slave.

"All this time," said this dear woman, "I constantly prayed that God
would overrule this to his own glory, and not allow those I had taught