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Show PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY. 49 placed her with the child in a chaise, (her description of which, with the horse and the driver, who was one of the victors, corresponds precisely with that given by the mulatto man, of the carriage, &c. by which he also was conveyed,) and refusing to dress herself, three of them, leaving the two who belonged to the house, carried her off in the condition that she was drJgged from bed, to a certain tavern in Marylaoo, and sold them both to the Man-Dealer, who brought them to the city of Washington. She stated, that one of her captors drove the carriage, and held the rope which was fixed to her neck, and that one rode each side, on horseback.-That, while OtlC of them was negociating a bargain with her purchaser, he asked her who her master was; and, replying that she had none; her seller beckoned to him to go into another room, where the business was adjusted without troubling her with any farther inquiries. She stated, that her purchaser confessed, while on the way to Annapolis, that he believed she might have had some claim to freedom, and intimated that he would have taken her back, if the man,* of whom he bought her had not ran away; but requested her, notwithstanding, to say nothing to any body about her being free, which she refused to comply with. She affirmed, that he offered her for sale to several persons, wlzo refused to purchase, on account iJfher asserting that she was free. She stated, that her purchaser had left her in W~shington, for a few weeks, and gone to the Eastern Shore, in search of more black people, in order to make up a drove for Georgia. These facts clearly exemplify the safety with which the free born'.inhabitants of the U ni1ed States, may be offered for sale and sold, even in the Metropolis of Liberty,t ai *I was informed in Delaware, that her-seller absconded in about ten days after the outrnge was committed. t The mulatto youth had been purchased in the city of Wasft- 1ngtou, and kept in it in irons several weeks, by a perSon who confessed his regret, that he had not removed him before Uul suit, (or .thr. recovery of bis frcf"slom, hnd commented; e,nd that, jf h~ had G |