Although Jack was but twenty-three years of age, he had tasted the
bitter cup of Slavery pretty thoroughly under Kendall B. Herring, who
was a member of the Methodist Church, and in Jack's opinion a "mere
pretender, and a man of a very bad disposition." Jack thought that he
had worked full long enough for this Herring for nothing. When a boy
twelve years of age, his mother was sold South; from that day, until the
hour that he fled he had not heard a word from her. In making up his
mind to leave Slavery, the outrage inflicted upon his mother only tended
to increase his resolution.
In speaking of his mistress, he said that "she was a right fine woman."
Notwithstanding all his sufferings in the Kendall family, he seemed
willing to do justice to his master and mistress individually. He left
one sister free and one brother in the hands of Herring. Jack was
described as a man of dark color, stout, and well-made.
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