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Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
man or a woman, as I approached them, getting off the sidewalk altogether. Another custom of the colored people down South has frequently irritated my democratic nerves. Excepting in the business streets of the far Southern cities — or in such a place as New Orleans, where there is no time to spare, and too much of the old French gentility to tolerate so despicable a practice — whenever a slave meets a Saxon--ivin, be jabers, if he's a Cilt --he touches his hat reverentially. In Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and even in some parts of Virginia and North Carolina, if you enter into a conversation with a colored man, and keep looking at him as you speak, he touches his cap every time that he answers your interrogatories, unless you expressly command him to desist. Perhaps this custom is the consequence of a legal enactment, also; but it is certainly the result of the imperious lex non scripta of the Southern States. Iv. Historical. Faulkner again slavery and fr
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Cilt --he touches his hat reverentially. In Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and even in somdid once see a girl killed on a plantation in Georgia. He said that he heard his boss, a person ofral districts of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, receive one peck of Indian meal per week. Or of my space to the slaves and the States of Georgia and Alabama. Postscript.-Malden, Massachhese, however, is extremely small. Viii. Georgia. A plague-stricken city the crabbed orescued and set it at liberty again! Ix. Georgia notes. The ghost, or the haunted cabuck nigger, who had run away from his boss in Georgia four years before. He had lived there ever s! gone! Gone to her rest in the skies! X. Georgia. Self-educated slaves Pursuit of kn I walked the entire distance from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. As I intend to revish Carolina, and the cotton and rice fields of Georgia and Alabama. It is entitled-- Nebraska. I[7 more...]
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ntucky and Ohio. No difference of soil, no diversity of climate, no diversity in the original settlement of those two States can account for the remarkable disproportion in their natural advancement. Separated by a river alone, they seem to have been purposely and providentially designed to exhibit in their future histories, the difference which naturally results from a country free, and a country afflicted with the curse of slavery. The same may be said of the two States of Missouri and Illinois. Surely this is satisfactory testimony? Thomas J. Randolph spoke next, and in the same strain as the preceding speakers. Is slavery a curse? Marshall, Barry, Randolph, Faulkner, and Chandler answer in the affirmative; and thus replies Mr. James McDowell, junior, the delegate from Rockbridge: Slavery a Leprosy. Sir, if our ancestors had exerted the firmness, which, under greater obligations we ourselves are called on to exert, Virginia would not, at this day, have been mou
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
s 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 renegade, for example, whom I met in
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
and incredulous inquirer should suggest that the contrast which has been adverted to, and which is so manifest, might be traced to a difference of climate, or other causes distinct from slavery itself, permit me to refer him to the two States of Kentucky and Ohio. No difference of soil, no diversity of climate, no diversity in the original settlement of those two States can account for the remarkable disproportion in their natural advancement. Separated by a river alone, they seem to have beenpact, the States who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them. Kentucky indorsed this doctrine through the pen of Thomas Jefferson: The several States, so the passage reads, who formed the instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction, and a nullification, by
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ports two churches, one weekly (temperance), one triweekly, and two daily papers. Population, at that time, nearly nine thousand. It is the capital of Alabama. Montgomery, albeit, is a very godly city. It is true that its citizens sell human beings on week days; but then — and let it be remembered to its lasting honor — it imposes a fine of thirteen dollars for every separate 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 c
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
em to have been purposely and providentially designed to exhibit in their future histories, the difference which naturally results from a country free, and a country afflicted with the curse of slavery. The same may be said of the two States of Missouri and Illinois. Surely this is satisfactory testimony? Thomas J. Randolph spoke next, and in the same strain as the preceding speakers. Is slavery a curse? Marshall, Barry, Randolph, Faulkner, and Chandler answer in the affirmative; aurnished to the pro-slavery non-slaveholders who are invulnerable to all ideas of justice. Let the anti-slavery population of the South be associated by forming a secret society similar to the Odd Fellows, or the Masons, or the Blue Lodges of Missouri, and let this union be extended over the entire country. The societies could circulate tracts, assist slaves in escaping, and direct the movements of the agents of the Grand Lodge. Third. Begin at the borders. In every free border town and
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
negroes. It is indelibly associated in my memory with the recollections of my long journey; for often, when alone, I repeated it aloud in the pineries of North Carolina, and the cotton and rice fields of Georgia and Alabama. It is entitled-- Nebraska. I. There's a watchword, weak and timid, Watchword which the gods despise, Which in dust the poet tramples, And that word is — Compromise! Word of spirits, feeble, fallen, Creed of dollars and of cents, Prayer to the Prince of Darkness, From aner and captive Not be loosened on parole, But released as the descendants Of the sires your fathers stole. VIII. Not as foe, as man and brother To the South I say this word: What is past is past — the future Frowns upon the negro's lord! Give Nebraska, give the future To a crime and to a lie? Rather leave the land a desert, Rather battle till we die! IX. Let the hearts of cowards wither, Let the pale intriguers flinch From a visionary peril, Say we — Not another inch! Not one forward step, <
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
y missus got hold of my spellina books thrice and burned them. You taught yourself? Yes, sir. How did you learn the alphabet? Well, sir, he replied, out in----county, near where the boss's plantation is, there's a schoolhouse. The well is close by, and when I used to go for water I got the boys to teach me a letter at a time. I used to give them nuts and things to teach me. Then, after that, when I come to ‘Gusta, --------(he named a young white mechanic), him that came from New Jersey, ga'en me a lesson in writing once in a while, and I learned that-a-way. You married? I asked. Yes, sir; I's got a wife and three children. Where is she? I rejoined. Out in----county. Is she a slave? Oh yes, sir; she lives with her boss out there. How often do you see her? ‘bout once every two or three months. Great domestic institution that! I have met several slaves in the course of my journeyings who had taught themselves to read and write, with as li
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
can feel no sympathy with the society in the prosperity of which they are forbidden to participate, and no attachment to a government at whose hands they receive nothing but injustice. If this should not be sufficient, and the curious and incredulous inquirer should suggest that the contrast which has been adverted to, and which is so manifest, might be traced to a difference of climate, or other causes distinct from slavery itself, permit me to refer him to the two States of Kentucky and Ohio. No difference of soil, no diversity of climate, no diversity in the original settlement of those two States can account for the remarkable disproportion in their natural advancement. Separated by a river alone, they seem to have been purposely and providentially designed to exhibit in their future histories, the difference which naturally results from a country free, and a country afflicted with the curse of slavery. The same may be said of the two States of Missouri and Illinois. Sur
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