Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1863 - 344 páginas |
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Página 39
... wonder if my mere narration can make your blood boil as the facts did mine ? Among the patients in this room was a young girl , apparently from fourteen to fifteen , whose hands and feet were literally rotting away piecemeal , from the ...
... wonder if my mere narration can make your blood boil as the facts did mine ? Among the patients in this room was a young girl , apparently from fourteen to fifteen , whose hands and feet were literally rotting away piecemeal , from the ...
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... wonder how this inferior milk agrees with the lordly white babies ? ) , the appearance of M with my two children had immediately suggested the idea that she must be the missis . Many of the poor negroes flocked to her , paying their ...
... wonder how this inferior milk agrees with the lordly white babies ? ) , the appearance of M with my two children had immediately suggested the idea that she must be the missis . Many of the poor negroes flocked to her , paying their ...
Página 64
... wonder that these poor people pin up the lower part of their infants , bodies , legs , and all , in red flannel as soon as they are born , and keep them in the self - same envelope till it literally falls off . In the next room I found ...
... wonder that these poor people pin up the lower part of their infants , bodies , legs , and all , in red flannel as soon as they are born , and keep them in the self - same envelope till it literally falls off . In the next room I found ...
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... , consider it the lowest degradation in a white to use any exertion . I wonder , considering the burdens they have seen me lift , the digging , the planting , the rowing , and the walking I do , that they do not 76 JOURNAL OF.
... , consider it the lowest degradation in a white to use any exertion . I wonder , considering the burdens they have seen me lift , the digging , the planting , the rowing , and the walking I do , that they do not 76 JOURNAL OF.
Página 83
... wonder to find them at least three times as dear as in your Northern villages . The profits of these Southern shopkeepers ( who for the most part are thor- oughbred Yankees , with the true Yankee propensity to trade , no matter on how ...
... wonder to find them at least three times as dear as in your Northern villages . The profits of these Southern shopkeepers ( who for the most part are thor- oughbred Yankees , with the true Yankee propensity to trade , no matter on how ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abolitionists afternoon allowed Altamaha appeared asked baby beautiful better blossoms boat Brunswick called certainly child church Cloth color condition cotton course curious Darien dear dear E degradation dikes dreadful evergreen existence feel fields filthy flogged FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE gardinias Georgia head human intelligent Irish island Israel Jack Jack rowed Khad labor land leave live look lovely manumission massa master means miserable missis Molly morning mulatto natural negress negroes neighbor never nigger Northern overseer owners perfectly planters poor creatures present race rattlesnakes residence rice plantation rice-island ride river rode round seems settlement sick Simon's slaveholders slavery slaves soil sort South Southern spect suppose swamp SYLVIA'S LOVERS tell thing thought tion to-day told trees utter walk whole wife wild woman women wonder woods wretched yesterday young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 73 - A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another ; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Página 146 - I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth...
Página 316 - ... entering the first of these? But half the casements, of which there were six, were glazed, and these were obscured with dirt, almost as much as the other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some on wooden settles, most of them on...
Página 105 - I reflect on the great means of good, to myself and ^Jjiers, that I so gladly agreed to give up forever for a maintenance by the unpaid labor of slaves — people toiling not only unpaid, but under the bitter conditions the bare contemplation of which was then wringing my heart. You will not wonder that when, in the midst of such cogitations, I suddenly accosted Mr. O , it was to this effect :
Página 112 - Presently the whole congregation uplifted their voices in a hymn, the first high wailing notes of which — sung all in unison, in the midst of these unwonted surroundings — sent a thrill through all my nerves.
Página 238 - Apparently the negro jargon has commended itself as euphonious to her infantile ears, and she is now treating me to the most ludicrous and accurate imitations of it every time she opens her mouth. Of course I shall not allow this, comical as it is, to become a habit. This is the way the Southern ladies acquire the thick and inelegant pronunciation which distinguishes their utterances from the Northern snuffle, and I have no desire that S should adorn her mother tongue with either peculiarity.
Página 176 - M up stairs keeping watch over them, and I sit writing this daily history for your edification, the door of the great barn-like room is opened stealthily, and one after another, men and women come trooping silently in, their naked feet falling all but inaudibly on the bare boards as they betake themselves to the hearth, where they squat down on their hams in a circle, the bright blaze from the huge pine logs, which is the only light of this half of the room, shining on their sooty limbs and faces,...