CHAPTER VIII.
ELIZA AMONG THE QUAKERS While Uncle Tom was sailing South, down the wide river, to his new master's home, Eliza with her boy was travelling north to Canada.
Kind people helped her all the way.

She passed from friend to friend, till she arrived safely at a village where the people were Quakers.
The Quakers were gentle, quiet people.

They all dressed alike in plain grey clothes, and the women wore big, white muslin caps.

Because they thought it was wicked to have slaves, they helped those who ran away from their cruel masters.

Often they were punished for doing this, but still they went on helping the poor slaves.