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EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS TO OBTAIN LIBERTY. 

was ta en before the police justices of the city, and committed for his offence. The boy was given up to members of the Manumission Society, and returned by them to his mother in Boston, to whom he was the first to communicate the particulars of his escape from the dreadful fate which had awaited him.
8. The miserable wretch who had brought him away, in consequence of the interference and solicitations of his friends, and of some indications which were given of his having been at times insane, was permitted to return to his friends, who promised to prevent him from engaging in similar practices in future.

EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS TO OBTAIN LIBERTY

The following account of extraordinary exertions to obtain liberty, an object so congenial with the best feelings of the human heart, is copied from the New York Commercial Advertiser of 1822.

"THAT human being, who would run the gauntlet for freedom so desperately as the poor African appears to have done, whose story is given below, surely should never again be brought under the lash of a taskmaster. The captain of a vessel from North Carolina, called upon the police for advisement respecting a slave he had unconsciously brought away in his vessel, under the following curious circumstances :-
2."Three or four days after he had got to sea, he began to be haunted every hour with tones of distress seemingly proceeding from a human voice in the very lowest part of the vessel. A particular scrutiny was finally instituted, and it was concluded that the creature, whatever or whoever it might be, must be confined down in the run under the cab floor; and on boring a hole with an auger, and demanding, 'Who's there?'a feeble voice responded, 'Poor negro, massa !' It was clear enough then that some runaway negro had hid himself there, before they sailed, trusting to Providence for his ultimate escape.
3. "Having discovered him, however, it was impossible to give him relief, for the captain had stowed even the cabin so completely full of cotton, as but just to leave room for a small table for himself and the mate to eat on; and as for unloading at sea, that was pretty much out of the question. Accordingly, there he had to lie, stretched at full length, for the tedious interval of thirteen days, till the vessel arrived in port and unloaded, receiving his food and drink through the auger hole.
4. "The fellow's story is, now he is released, that being determined to get away from slavery, he supplied himself with eggs, and biscuit, and some jugs of water, which latter he was just on the point of depositing in his lurking place, when

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