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CHAPTER VI.

FREEMAN'S INDUSTRY - CLEANLINESS AND CLOTHES - EXERCISING IN THE SHOW ROOM - THE DANCE - BOB, THE FIDDLER - ARRIVAL OF CUSTOMERS - SLAVES EXAMINED - THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF NEW-ORLEANS- SALE OF DAVID, CAROLINE AND LETHE - PARTING OF RANDALL AND ELIZA - SMALL POX - THE HOSPITAL - RECOVERY AND RETURN TO FREEMAN'S SLAVE PEN - THE PURCHASER OF ELIZA, HARRY AND PLATT - ELIZA'S AGONY ON PARTING FROM LITTLE EMILY.

THE very amiable, pious-hearted Mr. Theophilus Freeman, partner or consignee of James H. Burch, and keep of the slave pen in New-Orleans, was out among his animals early in the morning.  With an occasional kick of the older men and women, and many a sharp crack of the whip about the ears of the younger slaves, it was not long before they were all astir, and wide awake.  Mr. Theophilus Freeman bustled about in a very industrious manner, getting his property ready for the sales-room, intending, no doubt, to do that day a rousing business. 

In the first place we were required to wash thoroughly, and those with beards, 
to shave.  We were then furnished with a new suit each, cheap, but clean.  The men had hat, coat, shirt, pants and shoes; the women frocks of calico, and handkerchiefs to bind about their heads.  We were now conducted into a large room in the front part of the building to which