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ever know a colored person who said he preferred slavery? Oh, yes, mass'r, said the slave, I's knowed plenty dat would say so to white folks; kase if the boss knowed we wanted to be freemen, he would kick and knock us ‘bout, and maybe kill us. Dey of'en does kill dem on de plantations. Murder will out. Did you ever see a slave killed on a plantation? He replied that he did once see a girl killed on a plantation in Georgia. He said that he heard his boss, a person of the name of Rees, tell his overseer to take some slaves down to Brother Holmes in (I think) Gainsborough county — or from Gainsborough to Hancock county--for I have forgotten which of them the old man named first--and, said the brute, with what niggers I have got there and these, I think I can raise a crop. If you kill two niggers and four horses and don't raise a crop, I'll not blame you; but if you don't, and still don't raise a crop, I'll think you have n't drove them at all. The monster added--You needn
Rothschild (search for this): chapter 5
eparate offence and weed, on any and every unrighteous dealer who sells a cigar on Sunday! Let us smoke! Xii. Louisiana. About Southern women and Northern travellers chiefly: also, incidentally, of the Higher Law and the old slave Abraham why Northern travellers in the South so often return home with proslavery opinions four reasons property in man is robbery of man slavery a cowardly institution Prejudice of race city, plantation, and hired-out country slaves a black Rothschild why the Southern ladies are pro-slavery a poem by William North, About Southern women and Northern travellers chiefly. I remained in Montgomery two or three weeks; sailed down the romantic Alabama to Mobile; in that place rambled for twenty-four hours; and then entered the steamer for the city of New Orleans. I passed the winter there. For reasons that I have already stated, I did not speak with the slaves on the subject of bondage during the earlier part of my sojourn; and, as
to encourage insurrections, the dreadful punishment of which, if unsuccessful, we are unwilling or do not propose to share, by replying that I am not unprepared to hazard the danger of such a catastrophe, and the chances of speedy death or enduring victory with the revolutionary slaves. To still another objection urged against my plan, I answer that, in an insurrection, if all the slaves in the United States--men, women and helpless babes — were to fall on the field or become the victims of Saxon vengeance, after the event, if one man only survived to relate how his race heroically fell, and to enjoy the freedom they had won, the liberty of that solitary negro, in my opinion, would be cheaply purchased by the universal slaughter of his people and their oppressors. I start again. Let us travel again! After a detention of some months in New York city, prostrated on a sick bed, I once more departed for the Southern States. About the middle of September, 1854, I travelled by
Scotchmen (search for this): chapter 5
slaves. I have been their favorite and confidant wherever I have gone, because I never once adopted the shiftless policy of addressing them as if conscious of being a scion of a nobler race. The foreign population of the South. I am sorry to say that the Irish population, with very few exceptions, are the devoted supporters of Southern slavery. They have acquired the reputation, both among the Southerners and Africans, of being the most merciless of negro task-masters. Englishmen, Scotchmen and Germans, with very few exceptions, are either secret abolitionists or silent neutrals. An Englishman is treated with far more and sincerer respect by the slaves than any American. They have heard of Jamaica; they have sighed for Canada. I have seen the eyes of the bondmen in the Carolinas sparkle as they talked of the probabilities of a war with the old British. A war with England Now, would, in all probability, extinguish Southern slavery forever. A Southern requiem. It is sa
Dred Scott (search for this): chapter 5
sauce for the tariff must equally be sauce for freedom, it cannot complain of my use of its argument. Freemen of the North! unfurl the Southern flag of Nullification! Resist the Fugitive Slave Law! Better far, as South Carolina once humorously said of the Southern slave region, better far that the territories of the States be the cemetery of freemen than the habitation of slaves! True!--very true! oh, South Carolina! Soon may the negroes utter and carry out the doctrine! The Dred Scott decision. The same number of the Quarterly to which I have alluded, contains a constitutional opinion, which, in view of the Dred Scott decision, is worthy of being written in letters of gold in the legislative halls of every free Northern State. Here it is An unconstitutional decision of a judge is no authority; and even if confirmed by the highest judiciary in the land, namely, the Supreme Court of the United States, it would still be no authority: no law which any one of the Stat
, however, but another Slave State--I endeavored to put a slaveholder's post-mortem praises into rhyme — to write a requiem for a valued or valuable slave. Here it is: I. Haste! bury her under the meadow's green lea, My faithful old black woman Sue; There never was negro more useful than she, There never was servant more true; Ah! never again will a slaveholder own A darkey so honest as she who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest t Saxons should own The offspring of Canaan — like her who has gone. Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her home in the skies. V. Haste! bury her under the meadow's green lea, My faithful old black woman Sue; I'll pray to the Lord for another like she, As dutiful, fruitful, and true! Yet I fear me that never again shall I own A darkey so “likely” as her who has gone! Gone! gone! gone Gone to her rest in the skies! Gone! gone! gone! Gone to her rest
Sutherland (search for this): chapter 5
never attend auctions; never witness examinations; seldom, if ever, see the negroes lashed. They do not know negro slavery as it is. They do not know, I think, that there is probably not one boy in a hundred, educated in a slave society, who is ignorant (in the ante-diluvian sense) at the age of fourteen. Yet, it is nevertheless true. They do not know that the inter-State trade in slaves is a gigantic commerce. Thus, for example, Mrs. Tyler, of Richmond, in her letter to the Duchess of Sutherland, said that the slaves are very seldom separated from their families! Yet, statistics prove that twenty-five thousand slaves are annually sold from the Northern slave-breeding to the Southern slave-needing States. And I know, also, that I have seen families separated and sold in Richmond; and I know still further, that I have spoken to upwards of five hundred slaves in the Carolinas alone who were sold, in Virginia, from their wives and children. Ladies generally see only the South-Sid
Chesterfield (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
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 urg. I made no notes of the intervening country at the time, but will insert here what I wrote on a subsequent pedestrian journey over the same route. Chesterfield county facts. Nearly the entire road runs through woods. Land, from $6 to $8 an acre. This county, a few years ago, had a population of 17,483, an increase ual circle, a bee, a surprise party, a social --or at any other of the innumerable reunions which are everywhere so uncommonly common in the Free States? Chesterfield county, by the latest census, had five hundred and sixty-four farms; 87,180 acres improved, and 108,933 unimproved acres: the total value of which, with improvemen
Fauquier (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
mes of the authors, printers, publishers, and the amazingly clumsy appearance of it, prove. These speeches were delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in 1832, by the leading politicians of the State, shortly after the celebrated insurrection, or massacre (as the slaveholders style it) of Southampton — a period of intense excitement, when abolition was the order of the day, even in the stony-hearted Old Dominion. Is slavery a curse? Listen to the answer of Thomas Marshall, of Fauquier, then, as yet, one of the distinguished politicians of Virginia: Thomas Marshall's opinion. Slavery is ruinous to the whites; it retards improvement; roots out our industrious population; banishes the yeomanry of the country; deprives the spinner, the weaver, the smith, the shoemaker, the carpenter of employment and support. The evil admits of no remedy. It is increasing, and will continue to increase, until the whole country will be inundated by one black wave, covering its whol
Appomattox (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
conversed with many of the poorer class of whites in my journey. All of them were conscious of the injurious influence that slavery was exerting on their social condition. If damning the negroes would have abolished slavery, it would have disappeared a long time ago, before the indignant breath of the poor white trash. But — it won't. A know nothing. I slept at night at the house of Mr. S----n, a planter and Baptist preacher. He has a farm of six hundred acres overlooking the Appomattox River. He has some thirty slaves, old and young. I rode down with one of his slaves to Wattron Mill — a mile or two. He had lived seven years with his master; did n't know how old he himself was; didn't know how many acres there were in his master's farm; did n't know what land was worth, or how mules, horses and other farm stock sold; could not read nor write; had never been at City Point, which was only three miles distant, according to his own account, although, in point of fact, it
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