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Chapter 1
- Old John and Mrs Hensen drive to town.
- There was a notice saying that a slave-trader was coming to town from the deep south to buy slaves.
- The whole news spread very quickly between slaves.
- Mammy Sally tells Julilly about a free place called 'Canda' where she could be free. She also tells her that if they break apart then she should go there by following the North-star
- Julilly kept thinking about the free place called 'Canada'
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Chapter 2
- The slave trader comes to buy slaves.
- Mammy Sally and Julilly are broken apart.
- Julilly was accompanied my many other frightened children and three men who were chained to the back of the wagon.
- When Old John saw Julilly, he waved his white handkerchief till it became a tiny speck and disappeared.
- Julilly was heart-broken and couldn't control her tears
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Chapter 3
1.The weather was hot and the children frightened.
2.The children were very thirsty. Julilly started shimmering pools of water ahead of their cart.
3.The slave-trader's bottle was empty so he ordered the driver to stop so that he could re-fill his bottle. This meant that the three men would have a break.
4.There they saw a tall white man axing a tree with a small nigger boy stacking the wood. When they saw the slaves, they got him water.
5.The nigger boy told Julilly that he was a free boy.