So We Parted Forever, in This World
THE place where I was to meet Jerry was, as I have said, across the run, in a corn-field, near the blacksmith's shop, the time Friday night. It had rained hard all day, and the stream was swollen, and…
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Divorce or separation
One threshold, met from more than one vantage.
Stories from inside it
I Loved Her as I Loved My Life
It was some time after this, that I married a slave belonging to Mr. Enoch Sawyer, who had been so hard a master to me. I left her at home, (that is, at his house,) one Thursday morning, when we had b…
Bound for Richmond, Virginia
Let us go back to the "great house" where we left my mother. She awoke Master Tom and thought she would reach him through his religious views, so she said: "Master Tom, have you forgotten your religio…
The Night He Left for Good
Monday and Tuesday he spent most of his time away from home. About 5 o'clock on Tuesday evening he entered our room with his face looking very red and swollen, as if he had been drinking or weeping - …