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town. Some would be chained, some handeuffed, and others not. These 8Iaves were bought up from time to time to be auctioned off or sold at Bryantown, to go to other farms, in Maryland, or shipped south.

	“The slave traders would buy young and able fai~xn men and welideveloped young girls with fine physiqueSto barter and sell. They would bring them to the taverns where there would be the buyers and traders, display them and offer them for sale. At one of these gatherings a colored girl, a mulatto of fine stature and good looks, was put on sale. ~he was of high spirits and determined disposition. At night she was taken by the trader to his room to satisfy his bestial nature. She could not be(coerced or Îorced)~L1~T4!!re~:he was attacked by hirn~ In the struggle she grabbed a knife and with it,
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she sterilized him and froxn the result of injury he died the next day. She was charged with murder. Gen. Butler, hearing of it, sent troops to Charles County to protect her, they brought her to Baltimore, later she was taken to Washington where ahe was set free. She married a Government exnploye, reared a family of 3 children, one is a doctor practicing medicine in Baltimore and the other a retired school teacher ‚ you ~iow him well if I were to . tell you who the ~ doctor is. This attack was the result of being goodlooking,for~ which many a poor girl in Charles County paid the price. There are several cases I could mention, but they are distasteful to me.

	~‘A certain slave would not permit this owner to whip him, who with overseer and several others overpolered the slave,, tied him,.. . •put him across a hogshead and whippe4 him severely • fox~ three rnornfligs~~ :•in Sueçession. Some one no t~ied the magistrate at Bryan-