D. CULVER, Esq.]
Stephen Pembroke was the brother, and his sons the nephews
of Rev. Dr. Pennington, of New York City, Pastor of a
Presbyterian (colored) Church. Stephen Pembroke was purchased
and brought back to New York, ($1,000 having been contributed
for that purpose,) and related his experience of the slave's
life, at a public meeting, held in the Broadway Tabernacle,
July 17, 1854. His sons had been sold, and remained in
slavery.
JAMES COTES, free man of color, residing in Gibson County,
Indiana, went to Jeffersonville, (Ind.,) to take the cars for
Indianapolis. On going to the depot, at 6, A.M., for the
morning train, he was knocked down, "beat over the head with
a brick-bat, and cut with a bowie-knife, until subdued. He
was then tied, and in open daylight in full view of our
populace, borne off bleeding like a hog." He was undoubtedly
taken to the jail, in Louisville. On crossing the river to
Louisville he met the captain of a steamboat, who knew him to
be a free man.
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