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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 1 1 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Reply of Mrs. Child. (search)
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