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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
ves how do unto others, etc., fared the poor whites and slavery North and South Reciprocal Amenities a colored Exile a contented slave a Corroboration from Olmsted's book, Talk with a Free negro. in walking along one of the streets of Richmond, I was suddenly overtaken by a shower. I went into the store of a fruitererof any independent manliness on the part of the negroes towards the whites. . . Their manner to white people is invariably either sullen, jocose or fawning. T. L. Olmsted. Dec. 3, 1854. Iii. North Carolina. A North Carolina plantation's Headquarters Sovereignty of the individual in very full blast two slaves' stather humanity and the accumulation of wealth, the prosperity of the master and the happiness and improvement of the subject, are not in some degree incompatible. --Olmsted. Iv. North Carolina. Slavery or Matrimony? a colored calculation how the slaves feel the old slave mother's reply the domestic institution a chuc
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
be a robber, either as an individual or as a race, and permanently to prosper even in material interests. I saw, on this trip, and heard enough, to enable me to testify to the truth of the paragraph subjoined, by a gentleman whose writings have done much, I learn, to advance the knowledge of that sublime — aye, and terrible — truth, which the South has yet to learn or die — that you cannot fasten a chain on the foot of a slave without putting the other end of it around your own neck. Mr. Olmsted, speaking of the turpentine plantation, says: slaves and other people in the turpentine forests.--The negroes employed in this branch of industry, seemed to me to be unusually intelligent and cheerful. Decidedly they are superior in every moral and intellectual respect to the great mass of the white people inhabiting the turpentine forest. Among the latter there is a large number, I should think a majority, of entirely uneducated, poverty-stricken vagabonds. I mean by vagabonds, si<
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., In my sanctum. (search)
d slave-cars filled with the unhappy victims of this internal and infernal trade, who were travelling for the city of New Orleans; where, also, I have witnessed at least a score of public negro auctions. Everybody who has lived in the seaboard Slave States--women, politicians and clergymen excepted — well know that to buy or to sell a negro, or breed one, is regarded as equally legitimate in point of morals with the purchase of a pig, or a horse, or an office seeker. I can corroborate Mr. Olmsted, therefore--(from whose book, as this volume was passing through the press, I have already made several extracts), and can fully indorse him when he says: It is denied, with feeling, that slaves are often reared, as is supposed by the abolitionists, with the intention of selling them to the traders. It appears to me evident, however, from the manner in which I hear the traffic spoken of incidentally, that the cash value of a slave for sale, above the cost of raising it from infancy to