CHAPTER VIII.. Ford's Embarrassments--the Sale to Tibeats--the Chattel

Ford's Embarrassments--The Sale to Tibeats--The Chattel Mortgage--Mistress Ford's Plantation on Bayou Boeuf--Description of the Latter--Ford's Brother-in-law, Peter Tanner--Meeting with Eliza--She still Mourns for her Children--Ford's Overseer, Chapin--Tibeats' Abuse--The Keg of Nails--The First Fight with Tibeats--His Discomfiture and Castigation--The attempt to Hang me--Chapin's Interference and Speech--Unhappy Reflections--Abrupt Departure of Tibeats, Cook, and Ramsey--Lawson and the Brown Mule--Message to the Pine Woods, 105