...satisfied me. Negroes in the country, however, sometimes procure liquor from the small groceries, by stealing fowls and other farm produce from their masters. Hence I found, on my previous visit to North Carolina , that the slave-holders were warm advocates of the Maine liquor law. Are you a free man? No, mass'r, he replied; I's a slave. I come from the North, I returned; would you like to go ...