Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave 1848]. According to his
narrative, Henry Watson was born into slavery near Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in 1813. Watson's master, whom he remembers only as
"Bibb," worked primarily at raising slaves for sale. Watson's
mother, the cook in the great house, was sold when Watson was
eight. Shortly thereafter, Watson himself was sold to Parson Janer,
with whom he remained only a brief time before being sent to
auction in Richmond, Virginia. Watson was purchased by a slave
trader named Denton, who forced him to walk, along with many other
slaves, to Natchez, Mississippi. Watson was purchased by the
tyrannical Alexander McNeill, who kept Watson as a house slave for
approximately five years. When Watson refused to inform on another
slave, he was sent to work as a field hand on McNeill's farm.
Watson was purchased by Alexander McNeill's brother, William, who,
while initially kind, becomes cruel under the influence of his
controlling and sadistic wife. Watson was then sold to an unnamed
man who put him to work in a hotel dining room. Over the next few
years, Watson developed a gambling habit, stabbed another slave,
and was hired out and sold. A Northern man eventually alerted
Watson to a means of escape on a ship bound for Boston. Upon
reaching Boston at age 26, Watson met William Lloyd Garrison, who
advised him to flee the country. Watson spent a few months in
Britain but returned to the United States, where he remained, with
his unnamed wife, at the close of his narrative.
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