Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Miss Mattie Griffith” in chapter 88 of Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child:
... relating cases of great cruelty, said: Such things are common all over Virginia; at least, so far as I am acquainted.
But the planters generally avoid punishing their slaves before strangers.
Miss Mattie Griffith of Kentucky, whose entire property consisted in slaves, emancipated them all. The noble-hearted girl wrote to me: I shall go forth into the world penniless; but I shall work with a light heart, and,...
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