Incidents in the life of a slave girl.: Written by herself. Edited by L. Maria Child.

The Slave who Dared to Feel like a Man. 35
noticed by the captain. To port they went. There
the advertisement met the captain's eye. Benjamin so
exactly answered its description, that the captain laid
hold on him, and bound him in chains. The storm
passed, and they proceeded to New York. Before
reaching that port Benjamin managed to get off his
chains and throw them overboard. Ile escaped from
the vessel, but was pursued, captured, and carried back
to his master.
When my grandmother returned home and found
her youngest child had fled, great was her sorrow;
but, with characteristic piety, she said, " God's will be
done." Each morning, she inquired if anv news had
been heard from her boy. Yes, news was heard. The
master was rejoicing over a letter, announcing the capture of his human chattel.
That day seems but as yesterday, so well do I remember it. I saw him led through the streets in
chains, to jail. His face was ghastly pale, yet filll of
determination. He had begged one of the sailors to
go to his mother's house and ask her not to meet him.
'He said the sight of her distress would take from him
all self-control. She yearned to see him, and she went;
but she screened herself in the crowd, that it might be
as her child had said.
We were not allowed to visit him; but we had
known the jailer for years, and he was a kind-hearted
man. At midnight he opened the jail door for my
grandmother and myself to enter, in disguise. When
we entered the cell not a sound broke the stillness.
"Benjamin, Benjamin!" whispered my grandmother.
No answer. "Benjamin!" she again faltered. There