32 THE RUNAWAY. 



acquainted, received me with all the generous kindness of a Louisiana 

 planter. Ere an hour had elapsed, the Runaway and his family were look- 

 ed upon as his own. He afterwards repurchased them from their owners, 

 and treated them with his former kindness ; so that they were rendered as 

 happy as slaves generally are in that country, and continued to cherish 

 that attachment to each other which had led to their adventures. Since 

 this event happened, it has, I have been informed, become illegal to sepa- 

 rate slave families without their consent. 



