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North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
lave with whom I conversed in Virginia and North Carolina. To each of them I made the same reply. na, and even in some parts of Virginia and North Carolina, if you enter into a conversation with a cnd patriotic sentiments on record! V. North Carolina. Weldon, North Carolina, is a hamlet, os. Hence I found, on my previous visit to North Carolina, that the slave-holders were warm advocatewalk to Augusta the road discontentment North Carolina could be made a Free State railroad handsates. North Carolina a Free State. North Carolina, nolens volens, could be made a member of ts, I will here close my chapter on slavery in North and South Carolina, and devote the remainder ors, or rather plantation lease-holders, of North Carolina, are principally supplied with their handses in the pineries and on the railroads of North Carolina never see theirs. Country slaves, as a ne, I repeated it aloud in the pineries of North Carolina, and the cotton and rice fields of Georgia[3 more...]
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
t reverentially. In Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and even in some parts of Virginia and Noernal operation is frequently performed in South Carolina, still I cannot hear of it without a shuddook the branch to Columbus, the capital of South Carolina, I walked from there to Augusta--sixty milon both sides of the track until you enter South Carolina, when a pleasant change is visible. Ahere are thousands, both in this State and South Carolina, who believe in them as firmly as they beln and an evil? opinion of Gov. Wilson, of South Carolina forward! the Peanut Seller's Triumph, ive by a Personal Liberty Law! So, too, South Carolina. In 1830 she said: The government creaation of slaves! True!--very true! oh, South Carolina! Soon may the negroes utter and carry outankee renegade, for example, whom I met in South Carolina, and who told me that he had once been an majority, I believe, of the married men in South Carolina support colored mistresses also. A Fu[4 more...]
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ished to find that there are advocates here for slavery with all its effects. Sir, this only proves how far — how very far-we may be carried by pecuniary interest; it proves what has been said by an immortal bard: That man is unco‘ weak, And little to be trusted; If self the wavering balance shake, 'Tis rarely right adjusted. Sir, I believe that no cancer on the physical body was ever more certain, steady, and fatal in its progress, than is this cancer on the political body of the State of Virginia. It is eating into her very vitals. Danger Ahead. And again: Like a mighty avalanche, the evil is rolling to-wards us, accumulating weight and impetus at every turn. And, sir, if we do nothing to avert its progress, it will ultimately overwhelm and destroy us forever. And again: Sir, although I have no fears for any general results from the efforts of this class of our population now, still, sir, the time will come when there will be imminent general danger. Pass a
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
undeniable truths, when the subject of negro slavery is under discussion. That the negroes are perfectly satisfied with slavery; that the blacks of the North are the most miserable of human beings; that all slaves are happy, and all free negroes wretched: these ridiculously false assertions are far more earnestly believed by the public of the South, than the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence are believed by the wildest, the most fanatical of European Democrats. From Wisconsin to Georgia, I have frequently found men who did not fear to laugh at the doctrines of Jefferson as rhetorical absurdities; but, in the Seaboard Slave States, I have yet to meet the first Southerner who believes that the condition of the Northern negroes is superior to the condition of the Southern slaves. In a recent conversation in this city, I emphatically denied--first, that the slaves are contented with bondage; and, secondly, that their condition was enviable as compared with that
Southampton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
speedily republished. It consists of a number of pamphlet speeches, bound together; most of them, as the title-page tells us, published by request. It is a genuine Virginia volume, as the names 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 ca
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ublicly uttered the revolting declaration, that, if every slave in America could be instantly liberated by a single prayer, he — for one--wouan, 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 bs stupendous influence of evil, Mr. De Bow, the compiler of the United States' Census, in his official report, has the audacity to say that t verdict of Served Him Right on the body of every kidnapper, or United States Commissioner, who shall attempt to return a slave to bondage, ahighest 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 St we are called upon to protect ourselves. The President of the United States, and his law adviser, so far from resisting the efforts of foret not commit adultery, was the founder of the system of slavery in America, which breeds such crimes, and many others of the same character,
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he city of Augusta, I partly walked and partly rode to the town of Atlanta. I found the slaves in Georgia passively discontented. They did and without an aspiration. A sad, very sad condition of mind! Atlanta is a straggling business place, of about nine thousand inhabitants. I was there, I think, on New Year's Day, 1855. Atlanta has no beauty that we should desire it as a residence. It feebly supports two litanut Seller's Triumph. I heard a good story of Young America at Atlanta. It shows what manner of individual that young gentleman is. I beknives and pistols in the southern part of Georgia. One day, at Atlanta, a peanut and candy-selling urchin, at the railroad station, was r twenty-five cents and bought a piece of fat pork. The grade at Atlanta is very steep; and heavy freight trains, when going at full speed,me a godly city, Alabama. I walked the entire distance from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. As I intend to revisit that coun
Buffalo, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e man, as he is here, unless he be a coward, or a non-resistant Christian. He may strike back. It would not do to strike back here, would it? Oh Lor‘, no! Mass'r, said the slave, looking as if frightened by the mere idea of such a thing; dey would shoot us down jest as soon as if we was cats. Well, I resumed, a colored man at the North may strike back, and not be shot down. I then related an incident, of which I was an eye witness. The last time that I travelled from Albany to Buffalo, a few months ago, there was a colored man in the cars with us. In the South, I may state here, the servants, as the slaves are frequently styled, and the free persons of color, are put in the first half of the foremost car by themselves, unless they are females travelling with their mistress, when they sit by her side. The other half of the negro car is appropriated for smokers, and is always liberally patronized. A white bully, exquisitely dressed, with gold chain, and brooch, and dia
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
fare to Savannah, where I intended to go; but a little trifle of that kind did not discourage me. I resolved to walk to Charleston; and, as I did not know a foot of the way, to follow the railroad track. I had no adequate conception of the nature ass, will appear to the reader more probable from the testimony of a pious colporteur, given before a public meeting in Charleston, in February, 1855. I quote from a Charleston paper's report. The colporteur had been stationed at----county, N. C. : remember my first entrance into the city of Augusta. The yellow fever was raging there, as? well as in the cities of Charleston and Savannah. Everybody was out of town! The nearer I approached Augusta, the more frequently was I asked, as I sto believe in them. And this cabin was haunted, you say? The cabin referred to stood on a lonely field westward of Charleston. It got that reputation for years, resumed my companion. Nobody would go near it, night nor day. On dark nights, pe
Columbus (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
will swear — and not by proxy. I walked nearly or quite to Manchester, and then, changing my mind, took the branch to Columbus, the capital of South Carolina, I walked from there to Augusta--sixty miles. I kept no notes during this trip; but in a ave preserved and recorded the antislavery results of it. I was ten days on the trip, I find; but whether ten days to Columbus, or ten days from Wilmington to Augusta, I cannot now recall. I walked from Columbus to Augusta in two days: that I remColumbus to Augusta in two days: that I remember — for I slept one night in a barn, and the next in a flax house. Here is the sum total of my gleanings on the way. Discontentment. I have spoken with hundreds of slaves on my journey. Their testimony is uniform. They all pant for libross it in the night-time I should unquestionably have fallen, and been lost in the black slushy depths of the marsh. Columbus is a beautiful little city; but as the letter in which I described it, and my journey to Augusta, was unfortunately lost
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