You have beaten me cruelly without cause; you have not given me enough to eat and drink; and I don't want to go back again.

I wish you to sell me to another master.

I had rather even go to Georgia than to return home!' "'I'll let you know, you villain,' said the master, 'that my wishes and not _yours_, are to be consulted.

I'll learn you how to run away again.'" The other men advised him to take the black home, and cut him up in inch pieces for his impudence, obstinacy, and desertion--swearing tremendously all the while.

The slave was ordered back to his cell.