“I hope they never find you," Huck said. "You'll be wishin' you was drowned in the Mississippi." "Yes?" "They want to hang you twice." I nodded. I realized I couldn't be made more afraid than I was, than I had been my entire life.” FearSlaveryAfrican AmericansBlacksSlavesFugitivesFugitive Slaves Book:James Source: James
“Across the water was a town and I guessed, from all I'd heard, that it might be Cairo. I wished that had mattered. A fugitive slave was a slave in a free state just the same.” FreedomSlaveryAfrican AmericansBlacksSlavesFugitivesFugitive Slaves Book:James Source: James