CHAPTER II. - Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

The two Strangers--The Circus Company--Departure from

Saratoga--Ventriloquism and Legerdemain--Journey to New-York--Free

Papers--Brown and Hamilton--The haste to reach the Circus--Arrival

in Washington--Funeral of Harrison--The Sudden Sickness--The

Torment of Thirst--The Receding Light--Insensibility--Chains and

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