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236 GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF BONDA...
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XXXVII.—GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL, HOUSE OF ...
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
At last , therefore , Madame Luce was repaid , and tlie scliool placed on a footing- similar to that of the boys' schools , on which
moneyhad been freely spent from the first . From 1847 to the present year , it has constantly pursued its path of usefulness , sendin the duties g out
hundre M of adame their ds simp o f young le e ' s lives papers girls . The traine tell letters the d to story fulfil and from in memoranda some year measure to ye found ar . among It will
suffice to give a few extracts here and there .
( To be continued . )'
236 Glimpses Into A Rural House Of Bonda...
236 GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF _BONDAGE .
Xxxvii.—Glimpses Into A Rural, House Of ...
XXXVII . —GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL , HOUSE OF BONDAGE . LETTER PROM A COUNTRY _GENTLEMAN .
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« . sor the " burthen The trib cry ulation thereof and , agony and is grievous heavy of these ,- to and oppressions be the borne peop . " rise ' hearts up unto wax God faint in heaven , for it ; is a
January , 1861 , E 2 _sf shire . A pew Sunday evenings agothe kitchen of a large Elizabethan
, _farmrhouse at O , a village belonging to this parish , was entered ba licemanwhen the * farmerone of the
churchw to ardens his vexa , hearing y tion po found there some that , a stir servant and loud irl voices , , w alked been in , w and ith , g
them only a few , days , had just been captured , for running away from a previous situation . " How is this ? " queried the farmer ;
" 1 always thought tlie Sabbath exempt from the execution of this odious law . "
_" Sir , " quoth the policeman , " we can take them on any day , or anywhere . " So she was taken to the " lock-up " just as she
would have been for robbery or murder , there to lie until the Wednesday following , then to be taken to the county magistrate ' s
who had issued the warrant for her apprehension , when she would have the alternative of returning to her former slavery or to prison
-We owe this bad state of things to some vestiges of the " good old times" to the laws still in force regarding " statutes" or as
or they as are the called , country in folks some term counties them " hirings " statits . " " hundre At these ds " of statutes , masters , "
, , and servants meet , ( or rather tyrants and slaves , ) to enter year after year into annual compacts of slavery . Not so bad as American
slavery ; no , it is in great measure voluntary , _} r et not altogether so . Servants must have situationsand country families must have
servants , for as yet no Earl of _Shaffcesbixry , has inaugurated a great national system of eneral registry . What most assists the
continuance of this vicious g and grossly demoralizing system is , thafc to
the young it is a day much looked forward to as a general holiday ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/20/
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