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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 185 185 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 47 47 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 46 46 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 44 44 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 37 37 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 26 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 26 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 25 25 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 24 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 24 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
ads from the city to the Catholic cemetery, I met an aged negro slave. It was on a Sunday. Good morning, uncle. Good mornina, mass'r. Who do you belong to? He told me. Hired out? No, mass'r, I works on de boss's plantation. What's your allowance? A peck of meal a week, mass'r. What else? Nothina mass'r, at all. We has a little piece of ground dat we digs and plants. We raises vegetables, and we has a few chickens. We sells them (vegetables and eggs), on Sundays and buys a piece of bacon wid de money when we kin, mass'r. That's pretty hard allowance, I said. Yes, mass'r, it is dat; but we can't help dat. * * * * * * * * Did you ever know a slave who would rather be in bondage than be free? I neber did, mass'r. Savannah is a city of 20,000 souls. How many policemen do you suppose it requires to keep the peace there? Eighty-one mounted guards. There are larger cities in the Northern States with but one constable, and he e
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
and Georgia, receive one peck of Indian meal per week. On the turpentine plantations some bosses allow, in addition, one quart of molasses and five pounds of pork; others, one quart of molasses and three pounds of pork; others, again, two or two and a half pounds of pork, minus the molasses. On many plantations the slaves are allowed one peck of meal a week without any other provisions. In such cases, I believe, they are generally permitted to keep poultry, whose eggs they dispose of on Sundays or at night, and with the money buy pork or vegetables. They bake the meal into cakes or dumplings, or make mush with it. One peck of meal is as much as any one person can consume in a week. No slave ever complained to me of the quantity of his allowance. Several who received no pork, or only two pounds a fortnight, complained that We's not ‘nuf fed, mass'r, for de work da takes out on us; and others, again, said that the sameness of the diet was sickening. Everywhere, however, the slav