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GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF BONDAGE. ...
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_ihoug demoralizing h its result slavery is - _frequentl There y is " annuall bitter , unmiti y a change gated , but drud it gery is , often and
3 slave , change -mart from servants , bad to without worse . characters Thither nock who to can our there annual get Eng places lish , known in their
nei without hborhoods them ; that and heads their onl of y families chance , of so well obtaining servants at own all
slave is b g y is going most to attracted , statutes at and a distance hooked . is what The bait is calle by which d the the " ernst sill , _" y twoand
five earnest what shillings , or Burns " is fastening thus calls obtained " nerves penny , and . " sinews for Sometimes this mind miserable bod - y sum genius -sixpence they it may give or
be up witconsciencemanly and , womanl , y free , -will into , bondage ;" for , it , it , in his dayand in Scotland also .
seems was so , one I of have the long most demoralizin since considered of its this dregs vesti ; for ge of out the of the feudal tyranny ages and as g
premature drudgery , marriages its positive , and and young natural women results into , haunts rush the of vice young , into
" Anywhere , anywhere , " out of the handof their domestic foesinto debauchery and crime ,
houses crowding What with s e has arly broug wickedness ht this our outrage prisons , on and British our rural union liberty
work-. . most A home to irl me of is this the following placenamed circumstance Sarah : A , had hired
herself poor at M g — not at the statutes , but on the market day ; for such do not get , hired at the usual time , go week after week , and
as whom such as do not will get call servants MrHardfist , go also in and like whose manner appearance . A " gentleman pleased "—
establishment Sarah— we hired her than as an kitchen . inn" -maid but , , with to what the he inn calle she d " was more to a farm have
nothing to do ; her place was , and to be barmaid entirely in The the family kitchen beside , there s
and bein the " g his gentleman other d ! hter servants " who -in-law , would a cook so be of her course master a she , consi supposed . sted of that his son the , -in latter -law
were brother aug and sister . , She was hired on the 6 th of December , and on Saturday , the 8 th , she went to by the carrier Slie , who went passed in hi the h
peop p sp lace irits le of , who expecting her jud destination ging that from she on was her his goin new way g master to a N good , she situation . thought , and must amongst prove g
cart agreeable and . the , On talk the bein way g , I about think wh at at O was common , a person just got then into —ser the
vants going , . going The to newcomer new places— shook it was her mentioned head , and where said our " that heroine she that was was
very the their ch sorry own aracters to nei he of hborhood ar the this peop , for . " le the were Poor place only Sarah was too ! a this wretched well was known disco one , far uxag and round ing j g
still prised she to would find , in try addition and do to her the best peop . le On she her had arrival heard , she of , was a domi sur- -
Glimpses Into A Rural House Of Bondage. ...
GLIMPSES INTO A RURAL HOUSE OF BONDAGE . 237
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/21/
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