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The other sister sold.
“ Maria (another sister) was sold by Mr. Campbell next winter after I was married. Poor little thing! she was taken out of the yard, one day, as she was running about — so young and happy-like. It almost broke old mother's heart. Campbell was an old villain, he was, although he did not whip us often, and fed us well. Nobody but an old villain would have treated poor old mother so, after she had worked for him so long and faithful. Campbell would always make us take our own part, even against his own young one, or anybody else's: he would n't allow anybody to whip us except himself. Maria was sold to a man named Phelps.” “ The Congressman?” I asked. “ No,” she said, sneeringly, “not that old Phelps: he was not smart enough: this Phelps lived north of Estelle's Mills, near Clinton. She was not treated like human-she was treated like a dog by both of them. I saw her once at Phelps's; she was twenty-one or twenty-two then. But we did not get much chance to talk; I staid there only a few minutes. She told me she was treated very badly; she looked broken-hearted, poor thing; she was n't clad decent; she had not a shoe to her feet. I saw the marks of the whip on her neck, and shoulders and arms. Poor child! it made me sad to see her. She had two young ones: but I do n't know whether she was married or not.”Fate of her brothers.
Howard, my brother, the old man gave to his son John, who took to gambling and horse-racing, and got into debt; then he mortgaged him to a man
