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Europe (search for this): chapter 4
ristian morality and slavery surprising ignorance of the slaves concerning Napoleon Bonaparte Europe and the slave who never heern ob him colored Contentment what the boys said the willing Exileo, massa, he returned, who was him? It is the name of a gentleman, who did a thing or two in Europe, I returned. But do you know what Europe is? No, massa, said the slave, I never heerd on himEurope is? No, massa, said the slave, I never heerd on him? I explained that Europe was a State annexable to the United States, and, therefore, destined to be one of them in the good time coming, boys. Contentment and morality. Were you married, I cEurope was a State annexable to the United States, and, therefore, destined to be one of them in the good time coming, boys. Contentment and morality. Were you married, I continued, to your present wife by a minister? No, massa, dey neber does de like of dat wid colored people. (He was mistaken in this particular; for slaves are very often married by the preacher — of slaveholding trade, territory, education, Legree-lash-literature, and direct commerce with Europe! These assemblies are generally regarded, in the Slave States, as the safety-valves of the Sout
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
how or other, and got the building; but then we didn't get the right of choosing our own minister, as we expected. Does your white minister always preach to suit the slaveholders? Yes, sir, he said, always. He wouldn't be allowed to preach at all if he didn't. How do Unto others, etc., Fared. The wife of the storekeeper hitherto had taken no part in the conversation. She interrupted her husband, and told me the history of a Northern preacher at present officiating in the city of New York, who was forced to leave Richmond because he once selected as a text, Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you. He is devotedly loved by the colored people of the city, and has cause to be proud of the hatred of the traffickers in human kind. When this clergyman first came to Richmond, he said nothing offensive to the human-property-holders. He paid a visit to New England, and came back what hitherto he had only nominally been — a Christian minister. The first text
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
orthern States with but one constable, and he engaged occasionally only in performing his official duties! Who pays the expenses of this guard — the salaries of the men, and for the purchase money, the feed and accoutrements of the horses? Chiefly, the non-slaveholding population. Let the Democratic supporters of the constitutional crime of American slavery reflect on this unpalatable fact! In all slaveholding cities — excepting the great seaports, and St. Louis, Louisville and Baltimore, which are practically free — the lawyers form the richest and most influential class. Let the people think of this fact; let them remember too, that lawyers are the leeches of the body politic. Vii. South Carolina. The Southern Commercial Convention secret history of the anti-tribune debate Parson Brownlow's great joke Greeley and the counter-jumpers Sartorial description of the author a sublime moral the Tennessee editor Parson Brownlow's pulpit pistols a Southern <
Charleston, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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 saave the mulatto Contentment with slavery a colored preacher's family the negro who would n't be druv a boy's opinion a sign of the times advantages of a national creed Senator Douglas a Quotation, my next communication is dated from Charleston, April 4. I transcribe as much of it as relates to the North Carolina slaves. I left Richmond on Friday morning, and arrived at Wilmington about nine in the evening. On Saturday forenoon I took a stroll into the pine-tree forests by which t
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
T. L. Olmsted. Dec. 3, 1854. Iii. North Carolina. A North Carolina plantation's HeadNorth Carolina plantation's Headquarters Sovereignty of the individual in very full blast two slaves' statements a contented and transcribe as much of it as relates to the North Carolina slaves. I left Richmond on Friday mornire captured, and brought back, and sold to North Carolina. What a celestial gratification must it bhere — and when in Hell. “ slavery in North Carolina.--The aspect of North Carolina with regardNorth Carolina with regard to slavery is, in some respects, less lamentable than that of Virginia. There is not only less bige degree incompatible. --Olmsted. Iv. North Carolina. Slavery or Matrimony? a colored c, a simple narrative, in rhyme, of another North Carolina slave-mother's reply. I subjoin it here: ions, and God-blessed me at parting. In North Carolina, then, I have had long and confidential corial article that I had lately read in the North Carolina Baptist Recorder, entitled, The fanaticism
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
your arm inside of a jug handle. The advice was more especially addressed to the young lady spectators. By a bold license of speech, which men of genius are privileged to employ, the jug-handle of this more than celestial moral indicated the arm of every young man who would not, at his clerical command, sign the temperance, or rather the total abstinence pledge. The parson introduced me to a Southern editor, whose style of thought and conversation greatly amused me. He was from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Full to overflowing, was the Tennessee journalist, of loyalty to slavery (which, down South, they often euphonize as the South! ), and loyalty to venerable rye; and of the most friendly feelings, too, toward Parson Brownlow, Virginia short-cut, and the Honorable Mr. Jones, his representative in Congress. He praised Mr. Jones first and foremost: Jones was bound to be President, he said, and had come down here (but I mustn't tell nary one about it) to put himself right with the Sout
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Carolina slave-mother's reply. I subjoin it here: The slave-mother's reply. All my noble boys are sold, Bartered for the trader's gold; Where the Rio Grande runs, Toils the eldest of my sons; In the swamps of Florida, Hides my Rob, a runaway; Georgia's rice-fields show the care Of my boys who labor there; Alabama claims the three Last who nestled on my knee; Children seven, seven masters hold By their cursed power of gold; Stronger here than mother's love-- Stronger here, but weak above; Askerve the slave. I have the talent of silence, the talent of discreet speech — and also — and I use it quite as often as the others — the talent and virtue of indiscreetness. The friend of the slave needs all three! I found that the slaves of Georgia were without hope — passively resigned. It was requisite, in the first place, to arouse their hope. To effect that result, it was indispensably necessary to let them know of the anti-slavery battle waging throughout the Union--of which, unfor
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e slave. (Ladies, lovely, of the North! would you believe it? She actually appeared to be of the age she mentioned — no, not even a single day older.) She had had eleven children, but-- I's only three I kin see now, massa, she added, mournfully. Have any of your children been sold? I inquired. Yes, she said, sobbing, the tears beginning to trinkle down her furrowed cheeks, three on ‘em. Two boys were sold down South--I don't know where they is; and my oldest son was sold to Texas three years since. There was talk about him coming back, but it's bin talked about too-oo-oo --her sobs interrupted her speech for a few seconds--too-oo-oo long to be true, I's afeerd. Her maternal affections were strongly moved; I knew she would answer any questions now. It must have been very hard with you to part with your boys; almost as hard as when your other children died? I said. Almost, massa? she rejoined, far wuss. When they're dead, it seems as if we knowed they wu
Carolina City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
m ‘xactly de same age as he is. I'm ‘xactly thirty-two years old. Dat's his age. Is he free? Yes, sah, he's a freeman. He was raised where I growed. Long after this sentence was spoken, I found a world of sad histories in this accidental utterance. Raised — and growed! Is he a white man? Oh, yes, sah, he's a white man, he's not a colored man at all. He knows everytina — more dan I do — he kin read and write, and all dat sort oa thing, you know. I'd a sister and mother in Carolina, ‘bout 130 miles on the cars, as I'm told. I was raised by Mr. Kenog. He's bin dead for years; I wish I was wid him now. Dat was de first man dat raised me. Did you ever know your father and mother? Oh, yes; I knowed dem like a book. Mother died four years afore I came to Columbus — I've bin here two years--four and two is six--isn't it, sah? I assumed the responsibility of answering in the affirmative. Well, she has been dead about dat time. It may not be quite so lo
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ks-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 g Exile pro and Con slaveholders criminal even if ignorant of the moral Law Savannah a slave's allowance Expense of supporting slavery on the non-slaveholder a ilure in a servile insurrection. Having done my work, I left Charleston. Savannah. I spent three months at Savannah. My friends have often asked me how it wSavannah. My friends have often asked me how it was, that, when I dared to talk so freely with the slaves, I was never once discovered or betrayed? I reply, by remembering that the wisdom of the serpent is as necesuntil I was prepared to depart. I had only one conversation with a slave in Savannah, of which I have preserved the record. In walking along the beautiful road-slave who would rather be in bondage than be free? I neber did, mass'r. Savannah is a city of 20,000 souls. How many policemen do you suppose it requires to
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