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Romaine.
A Frenchman by the name of Anthony Salignac removed from St. Domingo to New-Jersey, and brought with him several slaves; among whom was Romaine.
After remaining in New-Jersey several years, he concluded in 1802, to send Romaine and his wife and child back to the West Indies.
Finding him extremely reluctant to go, he put them in prison some days previous, lest they should make an attempt to escape.
From prison they were put into a carriage to be conveyed to Newcastle, under the custody of a Frenchman and a constable.
They started from Trenton late in the evening, and arrived in Philadelphia about four o'clock in the morning.
People at the inn where they stopped remarked that Romaine and his wife appeared deeply dejected.
When food was offered they refused to eat. His wife made some excuse to go out, and though sought for immediately after, she was not to be found.
Romaine was ordered to get into the carriage.
The Frenchman was on one side of him and the constable
Levin Smith.
Levin was a slave in Maryland.
He married a free woman and had several children.
In 1802, his master sold him to a speculator, who was in the habit of buying slaves for the Southern market.
His purchaser took him to his farm in Delaware, and kept him at work till he could get a profitable chance to sell him. His new master was a desperate fellow, and Levin was uneasy with the constant liability of being sold to the far South.
He opened his heart to a neighbor, who advised him to escape, and gave him a letter to Isaac T. Hopper.
His wife and children had removed to Philadelphia, and there he rejoined them.
She took in washing, and he supported himself by sawing wood.
He had been there little more than a month, when his master heard where he was, and bargained with the captain of a small sloop to catch him and bring him back to Delaware.
The plan was to seize Levin in his bed, hurry him on board the sloop, and start off immediately, before his family could ha