this from your affectionate mother, hannah van buskirk, now hannah grover.i have not seen you since 20 years ago. if you send any money, send it to dr. bonner, and he will diff it to me. if you have any love for your mother, pray, come, or send for me. i love you with all my heart, hannah van, buskirk. >> this is dated september 19th, 1858. i take the pleasure of writing you these few words with much regret to inform you that i am being sold to a man by the name of pierson, a trader who stays in northerly. i am here yet, but i expect to go before long, and when i go go, i want to send you some things, but i don't know who to send them by, but i will try to send them to you and my children. give my love to my father and my mother, and tell them good-bye from me, and if we shall not meet in this world, i hope to meet them in heaven. my dear wife, for you and my children, this pen can want express -- cannot express the grief that i feel to be parted from you all. >> we're taken behind the public's thought of scholars and activists. dr. martin luther king j.r.'s