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Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
n a gigantic scale — the emigration of free white laborers will ever extinguish slavery in any Southern State. I except Missouri, where the active interference of the abolitionists would undoubtedly prolong the existence of bondage; but where, owinghis subject, made in the Daily Times, says: In the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, as much attention is paid to the breeding and growth of negroes as to that of horses and mules. Further South, we raisrvades the South. Unless it repents it shall utterly perish. Slavery will soon be driven east of the Mississippi. Missouri--already surrounded by free communities; with friends of the slave, from the adjoining territory, ever active on her boremont's Letter of Acceptance, and the Republican Campaign Documents, passim. West of the Mississippi and in the State of Missouri, therefore, the friend of the slave, from the inevitable operation of potent political and commercial forces, may l
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
strong language in reference to this subject, for I know that it will meet with a heartfelt response from every Southern woman. This lady is Mrs. Douglas, a native of Virginia, and a pro-slavery woman, who was imprisoned in a common jail at Norfolk, for the heinous crime of teaching free colored children to read the word of God! At the time of the Revolution, pure blacks were everywhere to be seen; now they are becoming, year by year, more and more uncommon. Where do they go to? The whi since. Da lend me dar saws, so I might be ‘pared to split my shingles; and den dey turn right ‘bout and ‘commodate demsels. Ye ax me inscribe de swamp? Well: de great Dismal Swamp (dey call it Juniper Swamp) ‘stends from whar it begins in Norfolk, old Virginny, to de upper part ob Carolina. Dat's what I's told. It stands itself more ‘n fifty mile north and souf. I worked ‘bout four mile ‘bove Drummond Lake, which be ten mile wide. De boys used to make canoes out ob bark, and h
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
publican statesmen, whose unfortunately conservative character of counsel — which it was impossible openly to resist-effectually baffled all our hopes: hopes which Democratic action was auspiciously promoting. Are we, then, without hope? No! and, while slaves live, and the God of justice is omnipotent, never will we be discouraged. Revolutions never go backward. The second American Revolution has begun. Kansas was its Lexington: Texas will be its Bunker Hill, and South Carolina its Yorktown. It is fashionable for our animalcule-statesmen to lament or affirm that slavery cannot speedily be abolished. It is so wrought and interwoven with the social system of the South--with its commercial, political, and religious organizations — that to root it out at once, they maintain, would be disastrous to the country and to the slave himself. Perish the country, then, and woe to the slave! Whatever falls, let slavery perish. Whoever suffers, let slavery end. If the Union is to be t
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
o pick cotton, and such another will bring so much, when it has grown a little more, I have frequently heard people say, in the street, or the public houses. That a slave woman is commonly esteemed least for her laboring qualities, most for those qualities which give value to a brood-mare, is, also, constantly made apparent. A slaveholder writing to me with regard to my cautious statements on this subject, made in the Daily Times, says: In the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, as much attention is paid to the breeding and growth of negroes as to that of horses and mules. Further South, we raise them both for use and for market. Planters command their girls and women (married or unmarried) to have children; and I have known a great many negro girls to be sold off, because they did not have children. A breeding woman is worth from one-sixth to one-fourth more than one that does not breed. XIII. The lower classes of the Southern Stat
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
we be discouraged. Revolutions never go backward. The second American Revolution has begun. Kansas was its Lexington: Texas will be its Bunker Hill, and South Carolina its Yorktown. It is fashionable for our animalcule-statesmen to lament or merican slavery among them, who superadd to a deadly national animosity, a still stronger hatred of a race of tyrants. Texas is a tempting bait for the North; the greatest territorial prize of the age. By the terms of its admission, it may be divates. What shall the character of those States be? There are numbers of resolute pioneers in Kansas who have sworn that Texas shall again be free — as it was under Mexican domination — before the flag of the free waved over it. They have declared southward, to the Mexican Gulf; that slavery shall, westward, find the bound which it cannot pass. Within the borders of Texas there is already a numerous free-labor population, whose numbers, by the organized emigration movement, will speedily be
Company Swamp (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
peck ye ‘ve heern tell on it? There is reefs ob land — folks call de high lands. In dar de cane-brake grow t'irty feet high. In dem ar can-brakes de ground is kivered wit leaves, kinder makina a natural bed. Dar be whar de wild hogs, cows, wolves, and bars (bears) be found. De swamp is lower land, whar dar's de biggest trees most ever was. De sypress is de handsomest, an' anudder kind called de gum tree. Dismal Swamp is divided into tree or four parts. Whar I worked da called it Company Swamp. When we wanted fresh pork we goed to Gum Swamp, ‘bout sun-down, run a wild hog down from de cane-brakes into Juniper Swamp, whar dar feet can 't touch hard ground, knock dem over, and dat's de way we kill dem. De same way we ketch wild cows. We troed dar bones, arter we eated all de meat off on ‘em up, to one side de fire. Many's de time we waked up and seed de bars skulking round our feet for de bones. Da neber interrupted us; da knowed better; coz we would gin dem cold shot. Hop
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e-breeding to the Southern or slave-buying Slave States. See Chase and Sanborn's North and South, and the authorities they cite. I have seen families separated and sold to different masters in Virginia; I have spoken with hundreds of slaves in the Carolinas, who were sold, they told me, from their wives and children in the same inhuman State; and I have seen slave-pens and slave-cars filled with the unhappy victims of this internal and infernal trade, who were travelling for the city of New Orleans; where, also, I have witnessed at least a score of public negro auctions. Everybody who has lived in the seaboard Slave States--women, politicians and clergymen excepted — well know that to buy or to sell a negro, or breed one, is regarded as equally legitimate in point of morals with the purchase of a pig, or a horse, or an office seeker. I can corroborate Mr. Olmsted, therefore--(from whose book, as this volume was passing through the press, I have already made several extracts), an
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e staples would not and cannot be cultivated by white men — that the choice, to use the language of Senator Douglas, is between the negro and the crocodile, is utterly without foundation, and is refuted by facts. There is nothing more common in Georgia and Alabama than to see white men, and white women too, at work in the fields at every hour of the day. Of course, these persons belong to the class of poor white trash. But, granting that the Southern staples would perish without slavery — wha subsistence and a science. For the mountains, the swamps and morasses of the South, are peculiarly adapted to this mode of combat, and there are numbers of young men, trained to the art in the Kansas ravines, who are eager for an opportunity of avenging their slain comrades, on the real authors of their death, in the forests and plantations of the Carolinas and Georgia. Will you aid them — will you sustain them? Are you in favor of a servile insurrection? Tell God in acts. Fare
Gum Swamp, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
nd — folks call de high lands. In dar de cane-brake grow t'irty feet high. In dem ar can-brakes de ground is kivered wit leaves, kinder makina a natural bed. Dar be whar de wild hogs, cows, wolves, and bars (bears) be found. De swamp is lower land, whar dar's de biggest trees most ever was. De sypress is de handsomest, an' anudder kind called de gum tree. Dismal Swamp is divided into tree or four parts. Whar I worked da called it Company Swamp. When we wanted fresh pork we goed to Gum Swamp, ‘bout sun-down, run a wild hog down from de cane-brakes into Juniper Swamp, whar dar feet can 't touch hard ground, knock dem over, and dat's de way we kill dem. De same way we ketch wild cows. We troed dar bones, arter we eated all de meat off on ‘em up, to one side de fire. Many's de time we waked up and seed de bars skulking round our feet for de bones. Da neber interrupted us; da knowed better; coz we would gin dem cold shot. Hope I shall live long enough to see de slaveholders fe<
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
he descendants of the bravest warriors America has produced — the hunted maroons, who, for forty years, in the swamps of Florida, defied the skill and armies of the United States. They hate slavery and the race that upholds it, and are longing for ot far from this territory, in a neighboring province of Mexico, live a nation of trained negro soldiers — the far-famed Florida Indians, who, after baffling and defying the United States, and after having been treacherously enslaved by the Creeks, e their oppressors felt their prowess; and their historian tells us--they will be heard from again. See The Exiles of Florida, by Joshua R. Giddings. Mark the significant warning! Arrizonia is a mining country. There is gold, silver and copper a programme of action? The negroes and the Southrons have taught us. The slaves of the Dismal Swamp, the maroons of Florida, the free-state men of Kansas, have pointed out the method. The South committed suicide when it compelled the free squa
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