12 Years a Slave - Chapter 10

12 Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Chapter 10

Return to Tibeats—impossibility of pleasing him—he attacks me with a hatchet—the struggle over the broad axe—the temptation to murder him—escape across the plantation—observations from the fence—Tibeats approaches, followed by the hounds—they take my track—their loud yells—they almost overtake me—I reach the water—the hounds confused—moccasin snakes—alligators—night in the “Great Pacoudrie Swamp”—the sounds of life—north-west course—emerge into the Pine Woods—the slave and his young master—arrival at Ford’s—food and rest