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Dansley failed, and I was left to my exertions to get to Canada the best way I could. I was secreted during this time about Dansley's farm, and was aroused to a sense of my condition one day by reading a hand-bill which was posted on a tree on the road close to Mr. Dansley's house, of which the following is a copy: "ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD!"
I had a Bible, and that alone served me as the guide in my ministry, and furnished me with all the arguments necessary to the conversion of sinners and their redemption. Our congregation at Mr. Dansley's was not organized into a church, and I did not attempt to receive members into the church of Christ.
We traveled slowly, by reason of the master's sickness; and when we stopped for the night I found that the saddle I had been riding had hurt the horse's back. Wilson was furious, and swore he would take as much hide from my back when we got home as the saddle had taken from the horse's back. The next day after leaving Salisbury we arrived at Mr. Dansley's. In conversation, I heard Wilson tell Mr.
Dansley's, and said he had come for me to go with him to Saulsbury, Tennessee, where he was going to start a grocery, and that he wished my assistance in erecting a building therefor. He informed me, at the same time, that as soon as the building was finished, I might return to Mr. Dansley and stay with him as long as he wanted me. He had another colored man with him, and desired to go right away.
When Wilson gave me instructions to hire myself out at not less than thirty dollars per month, he hoped I would fail, from the fact that wages for field-hands were only twenty-five dollars per month; and when I went back with Mr. Dansley's letter so soon, he was somewhat surprised. He would have opened his eyes with wonder if he had known that Dansley was to pay me five dollars per month extra.
Dansley Hire to Him Thirty Dollars per Month for my Master and Five Dollars for Myself Wilson Astonished Appointed Superintendent of Dansley's Farm Rules and Regulations Peace and Tranquillity My Moral Labors Successful Prayer and Social Meetings Meetings in the Woods Quarrel and Fight like very Brothers Time comes to be Moved to Another Field of Labor.
He gave me a written permission to work for Mr. Dansley as long as Dansley should want me. I immediately went to Dansley's, and stayed with him nine months nine months of contented time. I found my new master every way worthy of any confidence I might repose in him. In moderate circumstances, he used prudence and diligence in his business transactions and farm operations.
Dansley's and told him my reasons for endeavoring to effect my escape from slavery, and that the immediate cause of my present attempt was to keep myself clear of the accursed sin of whisky-selling. My motives were applauded, but my judgment was condemned. How could I ever expect to escape to a country where I could be a free man?
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