hundred dollars reward.

CHAPTER II.

Not sent to hell by Wilson--Mrs. Wilson protects me, to whom I
belong--Sent to school with the children--The school-children teach me
to read and write--What came of it--Mount that mule or I'll shoot
you--I mounted the mule--A start for the railroad to work--I dismount
and take to the woods--I owe allegiance to God and my country only.

CHAPTER III.

Caught, tried, and taken back home to James Wilson--My mistress saves me
from being whipped--I go to the railroad and work one month
precisely--Go back home--Wilson surprised--Left the railroad at
3 o'clock A.M.--Did not want to disturb Leadbitter's rest--Sent to Memphis
with a load of cotton--Afraid of the slave-pens and slave-auction--Start
for home--Not sold--Pray, sing, and shout--Get home and ordered to hire
myself out.

CHAPTER IV.

Start out on my travels to hunt a new master--Find Mr. Dansley--Hire to
him--Thirty dollars per month for my master and five dollars for
myself--Wilson astonished--Appointed superintendent of Dansley's
farm--Rules and regulations--Peace and tranquillity--My moral labors
successful--Prayer and social meetings--Meetings in the woods--Quarrel
and fight like very brothers--Time comes to be moved to another field of
labor.