They were both Baptists, and my brother had before preached to their people.

During the cholera at Richmond, my brother preached a sermon, in which he compared the pestilence to the plagues, which afflicted the Egyptian slaveholders, because they would not let the people go.

After the sermon some of the whites threatened to whip him.

Mr.Valentine, a merchant on Shocko Hill prevented them; and a young lawyer named Brooks said it was wrong to threaten a man for preaching the truth.

Since the insurrection of Nat.
Turner he has not been allowed to preach much.
My twin brother was for some time the property of Mr.John Griggs, of Richmond, who sold him about three years since, to an Alabama Cotton Planter, with whom he staid one year, and then ran away and in all probability escaped into the free states or Canada, as he was seen near the Maryland line.