They expressed much sympathy for me in my bereavement; and almost every day they gave me money more or less, and by my activity in waiting on them, and upright conduct, I got into the good graces of them all, but they could not get any person to buy me on account of the amount of intelligence which they supposed me to have; for many of them thought that I could read and write.

When they left Texas, they intended to go to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi, to attend a great horse race which was to take place.

Not being much out of their way to go past Deacon Whitfield's again, I prevailed on them to call on him for the purpose of trying to purchase my wife and child; and I promised them that if they would buy my wife and child, I would get some person to purchase us from them.

So they tried to grant my request by calling on the Deacon, and trying to make the purchase.

As we approached the Deacon's plantation, my heart was filled with a thousand painful and fearful apprehensions.