Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
CHAPTER III.
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,
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