Painful Meditations--James H. Burch--Williams' Slave Pen in Washington--The Lackey, Radburn--Assert my Freedom--The Anger of the Trader--The Paddle and Cat-o'-nine-tails--The Whipping--New Acquaintances--Ray, Williams, and Randall--Arrival of Little Emily and her Mother in the Pen--Maternal Sorrows--The Story of Eliza, 40 CHAPTER IV. Eliza's Sorrows--Preparation to Embark--Driven Through the Streets of Washington--Hail, Columbia--The Tomb of Washington--Clem Ray--The Breakfast on the Steamer--The happy Birds--Aquia Creek--Fredericksburgh--Arrival in Richmond--Goodin and his Slave Pen--Robert, of Cincinnati--David and his Wife--Mary and Lethe--Clem's Return--His subsequent Escape to Canada--The Brig Orleans--James H. Burch, 54 CHAPTER V. Arrival at Norfolk--Frederick and Maria--Arthur, the Freeman--Appointed Steward--Jim, Cuffee, and Jenny--The Storm--Bahama Banks--The Calm--The Conspiracy--The Long Boat--The Small-Pox--Death of Robert--Manning, the Sailor--The Meeting in the Forecastle--The Letter--Arrival at New-Orleans--Arthur's Rescue--Theophilus Freeman, the Consignee--Platt--First Night in the New-Orleans Slave Pen, 65 CHAPTER VI. Freeman's Industry--Cleanliness and Clothes--Exercising in the Show Room--The Dance--Bob, the Fiddler--Arrival of Customers--Slaves Examined--The Old Gentleman of New-Orleans--Sale of David, Caroline, and Lethe--Parting of Randall and Eliza--Small-Pox--The Hospital--Recovery and Return to Freeman's Slave Pen--The Purchaser of Eliza, Harry, and Platt--Eliza's Agony on Parting from Little Emily, 78 CHAPTER VII. The Steamboat Rodolph--Departure from New-Orleans--William Ford--Arrival at Alexandria, on Red River--Resolutions--The Great Pine Woods--Wild Cattle--Martin's Summer Residence--The Texas Road--Arrival at Master Ford's--Rose--Mistress Ford--Sally and her Children--John, the Cook--Walter, Sam, and Antony--The Mills on Indian Creek--Sabbath Days--Sam's Conversion--The Profit of Kindness--Rafting--Adam Taydem, the Little White Man--Cascalla and his Tribe--The Indian Ball--John M. Tibeats--The Storm approaching, 89 CHAPTER VIII.