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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself

CHAPTER XVII
10/17

We most generally carried with us a few pounds of candles to light up the houses wherein we held our meetings after night; for in many places, they had neither candles nor candlesticks.

After meeting was out, we have frequently gone from three to eight miles to get lodging, through the dark forest, where there was scarcely any road for a wagon to run on.
I have traveled for miles over swamps, where the roads were covered with logs, without any dirt over them, which has sometimes shook and jostled the wagon to pieces, where we could find no shop or any place to mend it.

We would have to tie it up with bark, or take the lines to tie it with, and lead the horse by the bridle.

At other times we were in mud up to the hubs of the wheels.

I recollect one evening, we lectured in a little village where there happened to be a Southerner present, who was a personal friend of Deacon Whitfield, who became much offended at what I said about his "Bro.


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