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Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ma. I walked the entire distance from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. As I intend to revisit that country at the earliest opporthe shareholders of the railroad from West Point, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, own all the slaves who are employed in grading, pumping, wo two. The rich slave. When about fifty miles distant from Montgomery, I saw a young man of color, well dressed — rather a dandy, in faish me with the copy desired, and appointed a place of meeting in Montgomery. Alas for the poor fellow! Either I mistook the place of rendto meet me. Other slaves and slave sales. My washerwoman in Montgomery hired her own time also. She paid her owner $200 a year; lived i vengeance and a half? The first things that I saw on entering Montgomery were three large posters, whose captions read respectively thus: Southern women and Northern travellers chiefly. I remained in Montgomery two or three weeks; sailed down the romantic Alabama to Mobile; i
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nd there entertained the sinful desire that some person of profane habits were present, as I would willingly have given him half of my cash to have done a little swearing on my private account — a mode of relief which my habits and taste would not permit me to indulge in. I suppose this sentence shocks you very much; but judge me not until you have attempted the same dreary journey that I successfully accomplished! Probably you 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 letter written shortly after my arrival in Augusta, I have 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 remember — for <
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
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 I was obliged to leave the city in a hurry — to escape the entangling endearments of the cholera, which already had its hands in my hair before I could reach the Mississippi River--I never had an opportunity of fully ascertaining their true sentiments and condition. I saw several slave sales; but they did not diff
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
eparated 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-Side View of slavery. Yet Mrs. Douglas, of Norfolk — a comely woman — was confined in a Virginia penitentiary for the crime of teaching free colored children to read. If the woman of the South knew slavery as it is, she would not stand alone in her memorable protest against it. For young unmarried men are not the only sinners that slavery creates in the Southern States. A majority, I believe, of the married men in South Carolina support colored mistresses also. A Fugitive poem. I wish to conclude this record of my second trip with
Fayetteville (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
tle log cabin, so made that it is only a shelter from rain, the sides not being clinked, and having no more furniture or pretension to comfort than is commonly provided a criminal in the cell of a prison. They will cultivate a little corn, and possibly a few roods of potatoes, cow-peas and coleworts. They will own a few swine, that find their living in the forest; and pretty certainly, also, a rifle and dogs; and the men, ostensibly, occupy most of their time in hunting. A gentleman of Fayetteville told me that he had, several times appraised, under oath, the whole household property of families of this class at less than $20. If they have need of money to purchase clothing, etc., they obtain it by selling their game or meal. If they have none of this to spare, or an insufficiency, they will work for a neighboring farmer for a few days, and they usually get for their labor fifty cents a day, finding themselves. The farmers say that they do not like to employ them, because they cann
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nd compelled him to carry his little baggage along with him. He threatened to cut his bowels out if he dared to return. Alone — sick — a member of an outcast race — without money — without family — and without a home in his tottering old age! Where could the wretched invalid go? He applied to the police. They took him to the jail and confined him in that putrid cell! How long, oh Lord! How long? Here my talks with the slaves on my third trip end. From New Orleans I sailed to St. Louis, and from thence to Kansas, where I lived, with brief intervals, for three years, during the civil wars and the troubles which so long distracted that unhappy Territory. About Northern travellers. With two additional extracts from my Letters, I will close this record. Why is it (it has been asked) that Northern travellers so frequently return from the South with proslavery ideas? Their conversion, I wrote, has already become an argument in favor of slavery. A Yankee renegad
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
and the poor, Preliminary words on insurrection. my opinion of the slaveholders, and my feelings toward them, were greatly modified during my residence in Savannah. I saw so much that was noble, generous and admirable in their characters; I saw so many demoralizing pro-slavery influences — various, attractive, resistless —mong strangers — no prospect of getting money — no hope of being befriended, and no inclination to make friends with anybody. I had not enough to pay my 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 fue stricken city. I well 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 stopped on the way to talk to the people, or entered thei
Wilmington, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
. I walked as far as Weldon, North Carolina, from Petersburg, and there I took the cars for Wilmington. On the road I had a talk with a Virginia slave, which I reserve for another chapter. uld provide me with the stock. I had no offer. Vii North and South Carolina. At Wilmington in a fix walk to Augusta the road discontentment North Carolina could be made a Free Stat the scenery of the country to repay me for my journey. So I jumped into the cars and rode to Wilmington. A long walk. I staid there four or five days in the expectation of receiving a draft from Philadelphia which a debtor had promised to forward from that city to my address at Wilmington. He failed to fulfill his promise. Here was a pretty fix to be in — only a few dollars in my purse — 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 rememb
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ion 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 sad to hear a slaveholder, of the less educated class, speak in eulogy of a negro who has gone to the world where the weary are at rest. It is sickening to think, as he recounts their virtues, that he never could ha
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
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 I was obliged to leave the city in a hurry — to escape the entangling endearments of the cholera, which already had its hands in my hair before I could reach the Mississippi River--I never had an opportunity of fully
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