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Bolivar, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): article 7
t ! old men and older women, heads as white as wool and more kinky — babies, from a week old all the way up till too big to be babies, all half clad and distressingly dirty — it is the elephant we got in the raffle, and now what to do with it is the question. More than two thousand of these wretched beings have been sent here by military authority to prevent starvation. These are "captives of war," most of them having been abandoned by their former masters, in and about Corinth, Inka, and Bolivar. Some are from Curtis's operations.--They have fallen into our hands in spite of our military policy to preserve the status of slavery, and their numbers are daily increasing. There is a great demand in this State for men to gather the corn and cut the winter weeds — so great that Northern Illinois is complaining that the farmers in Southern Illinois gabble up all the best as fast as they come. Men are here every day for hands. Wishing to get into the notions of the darkies, I passe<
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): article 7
have fallen into our hands in spite of our military policy to preserve the status of slavery, and their numbers are daily increasing. There is a great demand in this State for men to gather the corn and cut the winter weeds — so great that Northern Illinois is complaining that the farmers in Southern Illinois gabble up all the best as fast as they come. Men are here every day for hands. Wishing to get into the notions of the darkies, I passed among them as an Illinois farmer, my army hatSouthern Illinois gabble up all the best as fast as they come. Men are here every day for hands. Wishing to get into the notions of the darkies, I passed among them as an Illinois farmer, my army hat answering a capital purpose in the game. I proposed to hire a man. "Dun no, sah. Where you want me to go ! What you gim 'ee !" Going up to the dirtiest woman I saw, I proposed to her. "Can't go sah. ! Is got four babies !" "But dar's old granny, I can't leave her." "Why, can't you go, too, granny !" "O, master, I's in hopes some days it will please do good Lord to give me back to old master." I tried a dozen or more, and found underlying the hopes of most of them was an ultimate return to the
Curtis (search for this): article 7
omen, heads as white as wool and more kinky — babies, from a week old all the way up till too big to be babies, all half clad and distressingly dirty — it is the elephant we got in the raffle, and now what to do with it is the question. More than two thousand of these wretched beings have been sent here by military authority to prevent starvation. These are "captives of war," most of them having been abandoned by their former masters, in and about Corinth, Inka, and Bolivar. Some are from Curtis's operations.--They have fallen into our hands in spite of our military policy to preserve the status of slavery, and their numbers are daily increasing. There is a great demand in this State for men to gather the corn and cut the winter weeds — so great that Northern Illinois is complaining that the farmers in Southern Illinois gabble up all the best as fast as they come. Men are here every day for hands. Wishing to get into the notions of the darkies, I passed among them as an Illin<