CHAPTER IX. - 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 Hot Sun--Yet bound--The Cords sink into my Flesh--Chapin's

Uneasiness--Speculation--Rachel, and her Cup of Water--Suffering

increases--The Happiness of Slavery--Arrival of Ford--He cuts the

Cords which bind me, and takes the Rope from my Neck--Misery--The

gathering of the Slaves in Eliza's Cabin--Their Kindness--Rachel

Repeats the Occurrences of the Day--Lawson entertains his

Companions with an Account of his Ride--Chapin's apprehensions

of Tibeats--Hired to Peter Tanner--Peter expounds the

Scriptures--Description of the Stocks, 118