hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Kansas (Kansas, United States) 104 0 Browse Search
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) 64 0 Browse Search
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) 48 0 Browse Search
Georgia (Georgia, United States) 46 0 Browse Search
Alabama (Alabama, United States) 44 0 Browse Search
Missouri (Missouri, United States) 44 0 Browse Search
Augusta (Georgia, United States) 43 1 Browse Search
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) 41 1 Browse Search
United States (United States) 34 0 Browse Search
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) 25 1 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.. Search the whole document.

Found 408 total hits in 100 results.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
are larger cities in the Northern States with but one constable, and he engaged occasionally only in performing his official duties! Who pays the expenses of this guard — the salaries of the men, and for the purchase money, the feed and accoutrements of the horses? Chiefly, the non-slaveholding population. Let the Democratic supporters of the constitutional crime of American slavery reflect on this unpalatable fact! In all slaveholding cities — excepting the great seaports, and St. Louis, Louisville and Baltimore, which are practically free — the lawyers form the richest and most influential class. Let the people think of this fact; let them remember too, that lawyers are the leeches of the body politic. Vii. South Carolina. The Southern Commercial Convention secret history of the anti-tribune debate Parson Brownlow's great joke Greeley and the counter-jumpers Sartorial description of the author a sublime moral the Tennessee editor Parson Brownlow's p<
South River (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
re an educated gentleman, would be a secret skeptic in religion but an orthodox professor; he would naturally prefer the practice of the law as a profession; but if he took to politics he would be as non-committal as our democratic aspirants to the presidential chair, or even, perhaps, as the editor of a northern national religious paper on the crime of slavery, and its numerous brood of lesser sins. How do you do? I began. He instantly took off his hat. All colored persons away down South, excepting in large cities, do so when addressed by a white man. He was very well! I was very glad to hear it — and how did his folks do? I forget how he answered — you're not particular I hope? I talked irrelevantly for a time, for I knew it would be useless to throw away my frankness on him. So I put him through a course of Socratic questions. He admitted dat freedom am a great blessina; dat de collud population in general — in fact, nine-tenths of those whom he knew — would
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ese official Haynaus, regards itself as one of the burning lights of our modern civilization! Miserable race of woman-whippers — worthy constituents of the assassin Brooks —— fit men to celebrate his memory and to revile, with worse than fiendish glee, the sufferings of his pure-hearted victim, Charles Sumner! *I never spoke to any poor whites of this State, in order to learn their feelings towards slavery and slaveholders. Yet it may be interesting to the friends of the greatest of Massachusetts' Senators to know, as an indication of sentiment, that there is a native-born child of South Carolina parents, who reside in the capital, named after our torch-tongued orator, Charles Sumner. Story of a slave. The concluding portion of the narrative that I sub join, related to me by a slave, whose answers I took down in short hand as he uttered them, will serve to show how the name of the Sugar House has become a word of terror to the colored race in South Carolina and the adjoini<
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
intances, were discontented with their present condition. He that hath slaves let him think! Negroes have all the fierce passions of white men, and there is a limit set by Deity Himself to human endurance of oppression. Talks with whites. How do you think the negroes feel on the subject of slavery? I asked of a carpenter in Wilmington. Contented? Oh, --a very long oh--yes, they're all content. How could they better themselves? I know what the North is. I've travelled all over York and the New England States. All that abolition outcry is only interest. What does the North care for niggers Look at them in New York, the poor, scourged, driven, kicked, and cuffed wretches. I had a talk also with a German who had lived in Wilmington five years. He was an abolitionist. At Richmond, I said, I was told that many of the poorer citizens — those who did not own slaves — were secret abolitionists. Is it so here? The reply was very decided. Yes, sir. Look there, he
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
too! Assist Mr. Mitchell without loss of time! He has already saved about two thousand dollars; another, thousand, they say, would buy the whole cargo, and their blessing into the bargain. Let the three sons escape for themselves; they are not fit to be free if they make no effort to escape from slavery. Mr. Mitchell is a freeman by gift. This family are from Maryland. Some time ago, knowing that they were all to be sold to the South, they made their escape into the semi-free State of Pennsylvania, but were captured, and brought back, and sold to North Carolina. What a celestial gratification must it be to Mr. Millard Fillmore, and the friends of the Fugitive Slave Law, to know of such triumphs of the true spirit of nationality — such pleasing proofs of inter-national, or rather of inter-state courtesy! Great Heavens! it must be overpowering, over-whelming, overshadowing! Ah! little do our sectional and fanatical souls know of the bliss that awaits the Conqueror of his Pre
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ll intent and purpose whatsoever.--Code of South Carolina. Can you count yer fingers? demanded. Stir up the fires, Beelzebub! V. South Carolina. Charleston the Sugar House an ment, that there is a native-born child of South Carolina parents, who reside in the capital, named me a word of terror to the colored race in South Carolina and the adjoining slave States. I first he is Pete Barclay. I was born in Newberg, South Carolina. I'm ‘bout tirty years old now.） Why, de world. Did you ever live outside of South Carolina? No, sah, he said, nothing abashed by ted to the strap by Mr. Marshall. Vi. South Carolina. Salt water philanthropy the girl d everywhere. It may be true, however, of South Carolina. That's not a great misfortune, I remathe leeches of the body politic. Vii. South Carolina. The Southern Commercial Conventionne about it) to put himself right with the South Carolina fire-eaters, who were offended at a Union [2 more...]<
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
n efficient means of saving grace, I love Charleston! I spent a fortnight there--one of the happ over and above all, that the Sugar House of Charleston, by some means, or at any cost, may speedilyof the majority of the slaves in the city of Charleston. Mr. Brooks was a nobody at that time. Bbut despondingly resigned to their fate. At Charleston I found them morose and savagely brooding ovhostile fleet was seen sailing up the bay of Charleston — then, as surely as God lives, would the sed voluntary sacrifice. The Sugar House of Charleston is a building erected for the purpose of punropped. I concluded my fourth letter from Charleston in these words: I have spent six days nowinsurrection. Having done my work, I left Charleston. Savannah. I spent three months at Savthe Commercial Convention which assembled in Charleston in 1854. I beg pardon of the chivalry! Iribune debate : I determined to remain in Charleston during the session of the Convention, to rep[3 more...]
Calhoun, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nce and construction, its old-time customs, its genial climate — for there were roses in full bloom in its public gardens when there were snow storms at the North; perhaps it was the English architecture, the merry peal of bells, the watchman chaunting the time of night, the uniformed patrol — which I soon learned to hate — all of them reminding me of my boyhood days, that cast a spell around my spirit during my sojourn there, and which now casts a spell over my recollections of the city of Calhoun; but, be this as it may, in spite of my stern and inflexible anti-slavery zeal, I would rather to-day be a sojourner in Charleston than a resident of any other city on the Continent. Did I say a spell? Not of idleness, however. I attended to my business. Here is an extract from a letter that I wrote at the time: The city jail is an old brick building, of the Scotch Presbyterian style of architecture. Close beside it is another massive building, resembling a feudal castle in<
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
you! Yes, massa, and God will bless you, if you is the friend of the slave. I find, in a recent number of the Boston Saturday Express, a simple narrative, in rhyme, of another North Carolina slave-mother's reply. I subjoin it here: The slave-mother's reply. All my noble boys are sold, Bartered for the trader's gold; Where the Rio Grande runs, Toils the eldest of my sons; In the swamps of Florida, Hides my Rob, a runaway; Georgia's rice-fields show the care Of my boys who labor there; Alabama claims the three Last who nestled on my knee; Children seven, seven masters hold By their cursed power of gold; Stronger here than mother's love-- Stronger here, but weak above; Ask me not to hope to be Free, or see my children free; Rather teach me so to live, That this boon the Lord may give-- First to clasp them by the hand, As they enter in the land. The chuckling negro. I was walking along the river side. A colored man passed me. He could hardly move along. It was evident tha
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
express their condition. More frequently, I think, than slavery. I walked on, and at length came near an unpainted wooden house, occupied exclusively by colored people. A colored preacher's family. The family consisted of eight persons — the mother, four sons and three daughters. One son is twenty-one years old; the eldest daughter is nineteen, the other two female children are under ten years of age. They are the children of a colored Methodist Bethel preacher, in New York or Brooklyn, of the name of Jacob Mitchell. He has, it appears, been struggling a long time to get money enough to buy his wife, eldest daughter, and three youngest children. Come! my Methodist friends of New York, I want you to redeem this lot — to convert them from chattels into human beings. Here they are, for sale for cash--five immortal beings, all church members, and good moral people, too! Assist Mr. Mitchell without loss of time! He has already saved about two thousand dollars; another, th
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...