I was just one month absent from Baltimore, before the matter was decided; and the time really seemed full six months.
One trouble over, and on comes another.

The slave's life is full of uncertainty.

I had returned to Baltimore but a short time, when the tidings reached me, that my friend, Mrs.Lucretia, who was only second in my regard to Mrs.Hugh Auld, was dead, leaving her husband and only one child--a daughter, named Amanda.
Shortly after the death of Mrs.Lucretia, strange to say, Master Andrew died, leaving his wife and one child.

Thus, the whole family of Anthonys was swept away; only two children remained.

All this happened within five years of my leaving Col.