Alex St. Clair Abrams

Capitolo 53

Some days after her Mrs. Wentworth had sold her last piece of furniture,
The Dr. Humphries was walking along one of the principal roads in
Jackson when he was stopped by a crowd in front of which you/he/she had gathered
a market of sale by auction. On to walk on him it learned that it was the sale of a sheriff
of a youth "girl of probable black." Remembering that Emma had required
him to purchase a girl as a houseservant of attended for her, he examined the
enslaved and it found her/it in all the respects some kind of servant of house him
desired. Going above from the auctioneer for that you/he/she had climbed on only a bench
the purpose to sell the slave, he investigated from where she had come.
The answered auctioneer giving a small hand bills the doctor
exposing the sale. After the possession read him it walked above to the slave and
started to question her/it.

"Which is Your name?" he investigated.

"Elsy, gentleman" that she has responded.

"You say that you come from Orleans Nuova", he continued.

"Yes, gentleman", she responded.

"Which was the name of Your master?" asked to the doctor.

"Its name is the Mr. Alfred Wentworth", the blacks answered.

"Where Your master it is now?" he investigated, while continuing his/her questions.

"Mass is a prisner in de managed Yankee", she responded.

"And what made her permission Orleans Nuova?" it was the next question.

"My missis was turned away from city of de, and me escaped by dem
Yankee and it comes here to look for her/it."

"Has not you/he/she been able to find Your owner?" asked to the Dr. Humphries.

"No, gentleman. You tease as I came here de urban police he/she took me on and it put me in
jail."

"Excuse me", it interrupted the auctioneer, "but I have to sell this girl to
once. Time is precious, so you have to excuse me;  " turning then to the
you crowd him it continued:  "Here is the slave, gentlemen. You are a
black that looks intelligent, it says her it understands that whole appertains to
the duties of a servant of house. What will he/she offer for her?"

"Seven hundred dollars", a voice exclaimed in the crowd.