Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER VIII.
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Ford's Embarrassments--The Sale to Tibeats--The Chattel
Mortgage--Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf--Description
of the Latter--Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner--Meeting
with Eliza--She still Mourns for her Children--Ford's Overseer,
Chapin--Tibeats' Abuse--The Keg of Nails--The First Fight with
Tibeats--His Discomfiture and Castigation--The attempt to Hang
me--Chapin's Interference and Speech--Unhappy Reflections--Abrupt
Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey--Lawson and the Brown
Mule--Message to the Pine Woods, 105
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