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Charles City (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
public uses, but this: Whether the Legislature has the right to compel the owners of slaves, under a penalty, within a reasonable time, to remove the future increase out of the country. His speech is devoted to the discussion of this proposition, and in it he takes the most ultra positions. The Virginia slaveholder out-Garrisons Garrison. He even introduces the golden rule as an argument! In the opening paragraph, he says: It will be recollected, sir, that when the memorial from Charles City, was presented by the gentleman from Hanover, and when its reference was opposed, I took occasion to observe that I believed the people of Norfolk county would rejoice, could they even in the vista of time, see some scheme for the gradual removal of this curse from our land. I would have voted, sir, for its rejection, because I was desirous to see a report from the committee declaring the slave population an evil, and recommending to the people of this commonwealth the adoption of some p
Hanover Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
as the right to compel the owners of slaves, under a penalty, within a reasonable time, to remove the future increase out of the country. His speech is devoted to the discussion of this proposition, and in it he takes the most ultra positions. The Virginia slaveholder out-Garrisons Garrison. He even introduces the golden rule as an argument! In the opening paragraph, he says: It will be recollected, sir, that when the memorial from Charles City, was presented by the gentleman from Hanover, and when its reference was opposed, I took occasion to observe that I believed the people of Norfolk county would rejoice, could they even in the vista of time, see some scheme for the gradual removal of this curse from our land. I would have voted, sir, for its rejection, because I was desirous to see a report from the committee declaring the slave population an evil, and recommending to the people of this commonwealth the adoption of some plan for its riddance. The words italicized a
Christmas (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ursel's. Do you work for your boss, or are you hired out? I asked. I works for de boss. What kind of time do you have with him? Bery hard mass'r, bery hard. He works us all day, and neber ‘lows us anyding for oursel's at all from Christmas to Christmas. What! Don't he give you a present at Christmas? No, mass'r, not a cent. Some bosses do ‘low someding at Christmas; but not my boss. He doesn't even gib us ‘bacca to chaw. He was carrying a bag in which his day's provising, pumping, wood cutting, engine firing, and in other necessary labors along the line. These men are the most favored sons of Africa employed in the country, in the States of Alabama or Georgia. They are hard worked from sun to sun, and from Christmas to Christmas, but they are well fed and clothed, and comfortably lodged — comfortably, that is, for negro slaves. Their allowance. They receive five pounds of pork, a pint of molasses, and one peck of meal each per week; three suits of c
City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
r. 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 was nearer six; did not know how many slaves his owner had, or the name of the county we were in! One item of information, however, not generally known by slaves, nor always by whites, he did possess: he did know who his father was! So he was a wise boy after all — or the proverb is rather too liberal in its scope. Farming Utensils. Mr. S. walked down his farm with me in the morning.
Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
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 differ from similar scenes in Richmond. The Higher Law and old Abraham. Let me recall one incident. In the courts of New Orleans there is an old, stout, fair-complexioned, grey-haired lawyer, of Dutch build and with a Dutch cognomen. I saw a pamphlet one day — his address to a college of young lawyers — opened it, and read a most emphatic denunciation of the doctrine of a Higher Law. One day I visited the prisons of New Orleans. At one of them — a mere lock-up, if I remember rightly, for I have forgotten its name and exact location — the jailer, or an officer in the room where the records are kept, told me, in the course of a conversation, that there was an old nigger inside, who
Savannah River (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
I went in and was going straight to it. Hello! Good-god-stop! he shouted in a trembling, earnest tone; yev-got the yaller-fever — let-me-get from between you-en-the-wind! I roared. But the little Vitriol Vial was evidently in earnest, for he ran away as if the very devil was after him. His wife — a quiet, dignified personage — in spite of his frequent, shrieked warnings to her, came kindly forward and gave me a glass. Augusta. Opposite Augusta, on the other side of the Savannah River, is the town of Hamburg, in South Carolina. Although the pestilence had raged in Augusta with terrible fatality for more than a month, no case of yellow fever had as yet occurred in the town of Hamburg. The wind, fortunately for the town, had blown in the opposite direction ever since the plague broke out. They expected to be stricken as soon as the wind should veer about. Yet they escaped; no single case occurred there ; for the wind was friendly to them to the end. I walked down <
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 5
s the solemn warning- Live for the eternal life. IV. Ye may talk, and print, and vainly Rear a pyramid of lies, Slavery is still a fiction, Still his lord the slave denies; Still the mighty Institution Is a long enduring crime: God and devil, truth and falsehood, Slave and freedom, never rhyme! V. Is the negro man or monkey? Has he reason — yea or no? Is the brutal Celtic peasant Placed above him or below? Is intelligence the measure, Or the color of the skin? Is the slavery of white men Russia's virtue or her sin? VI. But I argue not; I scorn to Make a channel of my mouth, For the simple facts that conscience Proves to all from North to South; There is not a single slaver In the land, that dares to say That the mighty institution Will not die and pass away. VII. Let it vanish! let it perish! Let the blot on Freedom's flag Be torn from it, and rejected Though it leave you but a rag! Let the prisoner and captive Not be loosened on parole, But released as the descendants Of the
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
numbers of them — who would return, if he could, to his old home and condition in the South. Treatment of Free negroes. I bliev dat, said the slave, I know if I could get away, I would n't come back. Mass'r, he added, I's heerd dat in England, a colored man is treated jest as well as dey do white folks. Is dat true, mass'r? I believe so, I replied. Is colored people treated as well as white folks at de North? Why, no, I was forced to reply, not quite. There is a little pret, etc. The negroes brought very high prices. It is interesting to observe how the enlargement of commercial relations makes the interest of one nation the interest of every one with which it has extended intercourse. The Eastern war, which England was waging at the time, was the immediate cause of these inhuman auctions. Cotton was selling at so very reduced a figure, that many of the planters were compelled to dispose of a portion of their human live stock, in order to provide subsisten
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e to the slaves and the States of Georgia and Alabama. Postscript.-Malden, Massachusetts, Dec.e next lot Hiring own time a godly city, Alabama. I walked the entire distance from Atlanta from Montgomery: Contentment of slaves in Alabama. I have spoken with hundreds of slaves in Alabama, but never yet met one contented with his position under the peculiar constitutions of the r advised a single slave either in Georgia or Alabama to run away. It is too great a responsibilitica employed in the country, in the States of Alabama or Georgia. They are hard worked from sun to transported south, and condemned for life to Alabama celibacy and adultery. Of course, He who, amwith plantation slaves since their arrival in Alabama. All of them, of course, resemble Napoleon i, nearly nine thousand. It is the capital of Alabama. Montgomery, albeit, is a very godly city.utterance to his longings for a plantation in Alabama, well stocked with fine fat negroes. It is i[5 more...]
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 5
slavery treatment of slaves on plantations an unbelieving negro Canada negroes treatment of Free negroes North and South concerning linedo here, and do not feel the cold more than you do in Virginia. In Canada, in winter, it is very cold; a great deal colder than in the free S, or even the possibility of such a creature as a doughface? In Canada, I resumed, if a colored man once gets there, he is safe for life. Canada belongs to the British, and they never deliver up a fugitive. Yes, massa, said the slave, I belieb dat. A great many white folks has told me dat, and I belieb it. Although it is very cold in Canada, I continued, I never found a negro there — and I saw great numbers of rn States are as secure against the invasions of the slaveholder as Canada is to-day, three-fourths of our coming victory will be won. We needhan 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 t
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