cotton-pen

Updated: August 3, 2026

However, about daylight I met a colored boy, who procured some food for me and directed me to a cotton-pen close by, where I could hide and sleep during the day. When night came it was Thursday night I crawled out of the pen and started for another night's walk. I made very good time that night, and walked to within nine miles of Memphis.

Charles Thompson - Biography of a Slave : Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson