[313] from him. She did not think about running away. Slaves did n't long for freedom in those days; they were quiet and had plenty of privileges then. We were treated pretty well in Kentucky. Mr. Campbell was a kind master; one of the best there was. He had between six and seven hundred acres of land, but he did not push his hands; he was well off and did not seem to care; so we did pretty much as we pleased. Miller, who was left in Kentucky, was sold South; none of us have ever heard of him since.
Theory of the marriage of slaves.
We girls were all unmarried when we moved to Missouri, and excepting Millar, we all lived together till old master's family began to set up for themselves. I was the first that got married. It was the next year after we went to Missouri that I was married to Nathaniel Noll. There was about three hundred people at my wedding. When a respectable colored girl gets married, it is the custom there, and in Kentucky, for all the neighbors, white and black, to come and see the ceremony. Colored people and whites associate more in the South than in the North. They go to parties together, and dance together. Colored people enjoy themselves more in the South than in any other part of the world, because they don't know their condition. We were married by Mr. Chandler, at my master's house. I remember the words he said after I was married; says Mr. Campbell, says he, “You join these people together; that is, till 1 choose to make a separation.” I heard it myself. He went up to the
