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~	1~11 speed when working, giving different food of a coarser grade and not much of it. She was the daug,hter of one of the Revel is of the county, a family whose reputation was known all over Llaryland for their brutality with their slav€~s,

	“I:lothor with the consent of Mr. Davidson, married George Berry, a free colored mau of Annapolis with the proviso that he was to purchase mother within three years after marriage for ~75O dollars and if any children were born they ;rere to go with lier. My father was a carpenter by trade, his services were much ~r. demand. This cave him an opportunity to save money. Father often told me that he could save more than he~lf of his income. He had plči~ty of work, doing repair and building, both for the white people and free colored people. Father paid Mr. Davidson for mother on the partial pa~mentplan. He had paid up all but ~4O on mother‘s account, when by accident Mr. Davidson was shot while ducking on the South River by one of the du~ok hunters, dying instantly.

	“Mrs. Davidson assumed full control of the farm and the slaves. When father wanted to pay off the balance due, ~4O.OO, Mes. Davidson refused to accept it, thus nother and I were to remain in slavery. Being a free man father had the privilege to go where he wanted to, provided he was endorsed by a white man who was known to the people and sheriffs, constables and öfficials of public convei-. ances. By bribery of the sheriff of Anne Arunde]. County father was given a passage to Bal timor o for mother and me • On arri ving in Baltimo re ‚ moth er, fa ther and I went to a white family on Ross Street -. now Druid Hill Ave., where ~re were shelter-. od by the occupants, who were ardent supporters of the Underground Railroad.

	“A reward of ~5O.OO each was offered for my father, mother and me, or~ by Mrs. Davidson and the other by the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County. At this time the Hooketown Road was one of tho main tur~ipikes into . A Mr. ~ Coleman whose brother-in-.law lived in Pennsylvania, used a large covered wagon to tran8-. port merchandise from Bal thnore to different villages along the turnpike to Hanover, Pa., where he lived. Mother and father and I were concealed in a large wagon drawa by six horse8. On our way to Pennsylvania, we never alighted on the ground