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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
My first trip. I. Virginia A word before starting I start Richmond Thoughts in a Graveyard a Sheriff's advertisement a slave sale the auctioneer a young girl her educational attainments son of a Gun no thing else two Girls sold the angry slave trustee of a runaway and Mint Juleps a man publicly stripped and examined Virtue at a discount, A word before starting. I have visited the Slave States several times-thrice on an anti-slavery errand. First, in 1854. I sailed to Richmond, Virginia, from New York city; travelled by railroad to Wilmington, North Carolina; and from that port by sea to the city of Charleston. I remained there two weeks-during the session of the Southern Commercial Convention. I then sailed to Savannah, where I resided three months, when I returned direct to New York city. My second journey was performed in the autumn of the same year. It was rather an extended pedestrian tour-reaching from Richmond, Virginia, to Montgomer
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
My second trip. I. Virginia. Preliminary words on insurrection I start again Chesterfield county facts social reunions North and South the poor whites and slavery education and slavery a know-nothing yet wise negro boy farming Utensils guano and negroes the Slaveocracy and the poor, Preliminary words on insurrection. my opinion of the slaveholders, and my feelings toward them, were greatly modified during my residence in Savannah. I saw so much that was noble, generous and admirable in their characters; I saw so many demoralizing pro-slavery influences — various, attractive, resistless — brought to bear on their intellects from their cradle to their tomb, that from hating I began to pity them. It is not at all surprising that the people of the South are so indifferent to the rights of the African race. For, as far as the negro is concerned, the press, the pulpit, the bench, the bar, and the stump, conspire with a unity of purpose and pertinacity of ze