‘George Jackson,’ I answered quickly. ‘I’ve fallen off a river boat.’
Well, the people who lived in that house were very kind, and they took me in and gave me some new clothes and a good meal.
I told them that my family were all dead, so they said I could stay with them as long as I wanted.
It was a beautiful house and the food was good there, so I stayed.
A few days later one of the slaves in the house came to me and said, ‘Come with me!’
Together, we went down to some trees by the river. ‘In there!’ he said and went away.