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William Overstreet (search for this): chapter 88
nformation is the advertisements in the Southern papers. In the North Carolina (Raleigh) Standard, Mr. Micajah Ricks advertises, Runaway, a negro woman and two children. A few days before she went off, I burned her with a hot iron on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter M. In the Natchez Courier, Mr. J. P. Ashford advertises a runaway negro girl, with a good many teeth missing, and the letter A branded on her cheek and forehead. In the Lexington (Ky.) Observer, Mr. William Overstreet advertises a runaway negro with his left eye out, scars from a dirk on his left arm, and much scarred with the whip. I might quote from hundreds of such advertisements, offering rewards for runaways, dead or alive, and describing them with ears cut off, jaws broken, scarred by rifle-balls, etc. Another source of information is afforded by your fugitives from injustice, with many of whom I have conversed freely. I have seen scars of the whip and marks of the branding-iron, and I
Angelina Grimke (search for this): chapter 88
, and implore me, with resistless power, in the name of a God of mercy, in the name of a crucified Saviour, in the name of humanity, for the sake of the slaveholder, as well as the slave, to bear witness to the horrors of the Southern prison-house. She proceeds to describe dreadful tragedies, the actors in which she says were men and women of the first families in South Carolina ; and that their cruelties did not, in the slightest degree, affect their standing in society. Her sister, Angelina Grimke, declared: While I live, and slavery lives, I must testify against it. Not merely for the sake of my poor brothers and sisters in bonds; for even were slavery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slave-holders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my latest breath. Among the horrible barbarities she enumerates is the case of a girl thirteen years old, who was flogged to death by her master.
Allen (search for this): chapter 88
had not yet come for agitating the subject, she answered: I apprehend if thou wert a slave, toiling in the fields of Carolina, thou wouldst think the time had fully come. Mr. Thome of Kentucky, in the course of his eloquent lectures on this subject, said: I breathed my first breath in an atmosphere of slavery. But though I am heir to a slave inheritance, I am bold to denounce the whole system as an outrage, a complication of crimes, and wrongs, and cruelties, that make angels weep. Mr. Allen of Alabama, in a discussion with the students at Lane Seminary, in 1834, told of a slave who was tied up and beaten all day, with a paddle full of holes. At night, his flesh was literally pounded to a jelly. The punishment was inflicted within hearing of the academy and the public green. But no one took any notice of it. No one thought any wrong was done. At our house, it is so common to hear screams from a neighboring plantation that we think nothing of it. Lest any one should think t
Cash (search for this): chapter 88
end by the agency of moral and rational means. But if they resist such agencies, it is in the order of Providence that they must come to an end by violence. History is full of such lessons. Would that the veil of prejudice could be removed from your eyes. If you would candidly examine the statements of Governor Hincks of the British West Indies, and of the Rev. Mr. Bleby, long time a missionary in those islands, both before and after emancipation, you could not fail to be convinced that Cash is a more powerful incentive to labor than the Lash, and far safer also. One fact in relation to those islands is very significant. While the working people were slaves, it was always necessary to order out the military during the Christmas holidays; but, since emancipation, not a soldier is to be seen. A hundred John Browns might land there without exciting the slightest alarm. To the personal questions you ask me, I will reply in the name of all the women of New England. It would be
Giles (search for this): chapter 88
ofessor of Law in Virginia, speaking of the legalized murder of runaways, said: Such are the cruelties to which a state of slavery gives birth — such the horrors to which the human mind is capable of being reconciled by its adoption. Alluding to our struggle in ‘76, he said: While we proclaimed our resolution to live free or die, we imposed on our fellow-men of different complexion a slavery ten thousand times worse than the utmost extremity of the oppressions of which we complained. Governor Giles, in a message to the Legislature of Virginia, referring to the custom of selling free colored people into slavery, as a punishment for offences not capital, said: Slavery must be admitted to be a punishment of the highest order; and, according to the just rule for the apportionment of punishment to crimes, it ought to be applied only to crimes of the highest order. The most distressing reflection in the application of this punishment to female offenders is, that it extends to their offs
J. P. Ashford (search for this): chapter 88
s. They are the necessities of the system, which, being itself an outrage upon human nature, can be sustained only by perpetual outrages. The next reliable source of information is the advertisements in the Southern papers. In the North Carolina (Raleigh) Standard, Mr. Micajah Ricks advertises, Runaway, a negro woman and two children. A few days before she went off, I burned her with a hot iron on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter M. In the Natchez Courier, Mr. J. P. Ashford advertises a runaway negro girl, with a good many teeth missing, and the letter A branded on her cheek and forehead. In the Lexington (Ky.) Observer, Mr. William Overstreet advertises a runaway negro with his left eye out, scars from a dirk on his left arm, and much scarred with the whip. I might quote from hundreds of such advertisements, offering rewards for runaways, dead or alive, and describing them with ears cut off, jaws broken, scarred by rifle-balls, etc. Another source o
Mattie Griffith (search for this): chapter 88
that we think nothing of it. Lest any one should think that the slaves are generally well treated, and that the cases I mentioned are exceptions, let me be distinctly understood that cruelty is the rule, and kindness is the exception. In the same discussion, a student from Virginia, after 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, best of all, I shall live with an easy conscience. Previous to this generous resolution, she had never read any abolition document, and entertained the common Southern prejudice against them. But her own observation so deeply impressed her with the enormities of slavery, that she was im
Guy Raines (search for this): chapter 88
the same as if his horse or cow had been killed. In the South Carolina Reports is a case where the State had indicted Guy Raines for the murder of a slave named Isaac. It was proved that William Gray, the owner of Isaac, had given him a thousand lashes. The poor creature made his escape, but was caught, and delivered to the custody of Raines, to be carried to the county jail. Because he refused to go, Raines gave him five hundred lashes, and he died soon after. The counsel for Raines proposRaines gave him five hundred lashes, and he died soon after. The counsel for Raines proposed that he should be allowed to acquit himself by his own oath. The court decided against it, because white witnesses had testified; but the Court of Appeals afterward decided he ought to have been exculpated by his own oath, and he was acquitted. SmRaines proposed that he should be allowed to acquit himself by his own oath. The court decided against it, because white witnesses had testified; but the Court of Appeals afterward decided he ought to have been exculpated by his own oath, and he was acquitted. Small indeed is the chance for justice to a slave, when his own color are not allowed to testify, if they see him maimed or his children murdered; when he has slave-holders for judges and jurors; when the murderer can exculpate himself by his own oath;
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 88
ust rule for the apportionment of punishment to crimes, it ought to be applied only to crimes of the highest order. The most distressing reflection in the application of this punishment to female offenders is, that it extends to their offspring; and the innocent are thus punished with the guilty. Yet one hundred and twenty thousand innocent babes in this country are annually subjected to a punishment which your governor declared ought to be applied only to crimes of the highest order. Jefferson said: One day of American slavery is worse than a thousand years of that which we rose in arms to oppose. Alluding to insurrections, he said: The Almighty has no attribute that can take side with us in such a contest. John Randolph declared: Every planter is a sentinel at his own door. Every Southern mother, when she hears an alarm of fire in the night, instinctively presses her infant closer to her bosom. Looking at the system of slavery in the light of all this evidence, do you c
George William Curtis (search for this): chapter 88
uld call arrant treason. William C. Bryant, in his capacity of editor, is openly on our side. The inspired muse of Whittier has incessantly sounded the trumpet for moral warfare with your iniquitous institution ; and his stirring tones have been answered, more or less loudly, by Pierpont, Lowell, and Longfellow. Emerson, the Plato of America, leaves the scholastic seclusion he loves so well, and, disliking noise with all his poetic soul, bravely takes his stand among the trumpeters. George W. Curtis, the brilliant writer, the eloquent lecturer, the elegant man of the world, lays the wealth of his talent on the altar of Freedom, and makes common cause with rough-shod reformers. The genius of Mrs. Stowe carried the outworks of your institution at one dash, and left the citadel open to besiegers, who are pouring in amain. In the church, on the ultra-liberal side, it is assailed by the powerful battering-ram of Theodore Parker's eloquence. On the extreme orthodox side is set a hug
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