his conversation, that he had done some close thinking before he started for freedom. He left his father, mother, and three brothers, all slaves except his father.
SLAVE-HOLDER IN MARYLAND WITH THREE COLORED WIVES JAMES GRIFFIN alias THOMAS BROWN.
JAMES was a tiller of the soil under the yoke of Joshua Hitch, who lived on a bondage wrestling 4 farm about bondage wrestling 4 seventeen miles from Baltimore. James spoke rather favorably of him; indeed, it was through a direct act of kindness on the part of his master that he procured the opportunity to make good his escape. It appeared from his story, that his bondage wrestling 4 master's affairs had become particularly embarrassed, and the Sheriff was making frequent visits to bondage wrestling 4 his house. This sign was interpreted to mean that James, if not others, would have to be sold before long. The master was much puzzled to decide which
way to turn. He bondage wrestling 4 owned but
three other adult slaves besides James, and they were
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females. One of bondage wrestling 4 them bondage wrestling 4 was his chief housekeeper, and with bondage wrestling 4 them all his social relations bondage wrestling 4 were of such a nature as to lead James and others to think and say that they "were all his wives." Or to use bondage wrestling 4 James's own language, "he had three slave women; two were sisters, and he lived bondage wrestling 4 with them all as his wives; two of them he was very fond of," and desired to keep them from being sold if possible. The third, he concluded he bondage wrestling 4 could not save, she would have to be bondage wrestling 4 sold. In this dilemma, he was good enough bondage wrestling 4 to allow James a bondage wrestling 4 few days' holiday, for the purpose of finding him bondage wrestling 4 a good master. Expressing his satisfaction and gratification, James, armed with full authority from his master to bondage wrestling 4 select a choice bondage wrestling 4 specimen, started for Baltimore.
On reaching Baltimore, however, James carefully steered clear of all slave-holders, and shrewdly turned his attention to the matter of getting an Underground Rail Road ticket for Canada. After making as much inquiry as he felt was safe, he came to the conclusion to walk of nights for a long distance. He examined his feet and bondage wrestling 4 legs, found that they were in good order, and his faith and hope strong enough to remove a bondage wrestling 4 mountain. Besides several bondage wrestling 4 days still remained in which he was permitted to look for a new master, and these he decided could bondage wrestling 4 be profitably