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Show Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. ncction ·with it." As we passed Snaky Swan1p, ho poin ted to it, and ;-;;aid, " ~'h e re is a sla. \'C terri Lory that dcfie · all tho law·." I though t oC tho terrible day,· I had spent thoro, and thono·h it \Vas not called Di:nwl sw~.unp, it lnaclc 1110 feel Ycry di ·nuLl as I looked at it. J I . hall noYor forgot that Hight. 'rho baltny air of I spring \vas so rofrc ·hing ! 1\nd ho\v shall I de. ·cribc 1ny 0 11. ations \vhon \VO \voro fairly sailing on Chesapeake 13ay '? 0 , the beautiful ·nnshinc! tho exhilarat-ing brooz ! and I could enjoy thc1n ·without fear or re traint. I hadl!OYCr roaliz <.1 \vhat grand thino·, air and .·unli ght arc till I had h en dcpri \'0<1 of then1. Ton days after \rc left land \\rc \Yore approaehino· Philadcl phia. The cap tain said \VO shoulcl arri vc ther~ in tho night, Lnt he thought \VC had better wait till morning, and go on shore in Lroad dayligh t, us the best way to aYoid ·uspicion. I replied," Y n kno\v bc.t. 13nt \vill you .·tay on board and proto ·t us?" IIo . aw that 1 was ~·nspi c i ous, and he said he was sorry, now that he had bro11 ~.rh L us to the o11d of onr voyao·c, to find I had so lit tle confidence in h in1. Ah, if he hacl ever been a slave he \\T ulc.l ]JaYo known how difficult it was to tru.t a "\Yhi Lc 1nan. 1Io a~snrcd ns that \VO lnio·ht sleep through tho 11ight \\rithout fear; that he \vould take care \\'O \VOrc not left unproLoclc<l. Be it said to tlto ho11or of thi. · captain , 8on th erncr as he 'va 'that if Fanny and. I had bcvll Wl lito la<li es, auu our pa:-;,·age lawfully cugn getl , he coul <l not haYo ircn l('(l us more ro~poctf'ully . l\fy inl<'lUgenL fri<\nd, Peter, ha<l rightly cstin1atocl tho characLor of the n1an to who.·o [ honor he had intrusted u s. Northward Bound. 24 1 The next 1norning I wa. · on dock as soon a . the clay dawned. I callccl Fanny to soc the sun ri.·e, for the fir t time in our live , on free soil; for ·uch I th en belioYecl it to be. \-V c \ratchocl tho roc.hlonjn <r .·ky, an<l saw tho great orb co1nc up slo·wly out of tho water, as it seen1od. oon tho waves began to ~I arklo, and every thing caugh t the beau tiful glow. Before us lay the city of stranger . \V c lookcc.l at each other, and the eye. of lJoLh \Yore moi ·tcnou wj th tears. \Vo had escaped fron1 . lavery, ancl \VO su pposod our ·el\·e to be safe from tho hunter. . But we wore alone in the world and we hacl loft clear tics behinu us; tics cr uelly un-' dered by the don1on Slavery. 21 |