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10 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS.
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
purchased so correctly mine as those at a who can dear spea price k fro almost m experience at the , and sacrifice 1 have of
my life ; yet too many very have even paid , that for it . It is quite time that effectual means should be loyed to break the chain
of that slavery under which so many emp thousands of our countrywomen are bound .
that excep It for will t Saturday four , perhaps months , I , be ha successivel v scarcel e at 12 y y ' clock , eac ieved h gone ni h g y ht into many during my , when bed the -room week I say r r
drow dipped siness my '' head turned in a to basin the work of - cold room water and desired to arouse each me of from thcr while young wi peop th , re to watch lay aside on the their table work before , ten me I inu kept tes' guard sleep , - _,
Such , an indul my gence would have been strictly forbidden , hy the dispel principal the , desir as t e for sleep tter and approved o there f a f ore w of ill st perhaps rong tea tel to l
methat I was not doing , my duty many by my employers in permitting , what they would not have countenanced . But did they
car do e t heir They duty would hy the no number t employ hands young enoug lives h to tr do ust their ed to work their ,
victims but increased . Any their one p who rofits patronizes from the blood these fashionable life of these houses poor ,
amp knows ly sufficient quite well to enoug remunerate h that the the dress hig - h mak pr er ices , we charged re a proper are
hours number of labour peop . But engaged no ! the to few make must her do dress what should reasonabl be the e
because work of there many is , and a luxurious their lives and must abundant be wasted " private inch table by inc " to h , house to
w port supp h " A ; ly and ; subject slave in too every , " frequentl to say seven the s Webster will y cases an of out q another u in ipag of his ten e and dictionary , a one country its who attendants , has " is no a . person will sup of
his own y but whose person and services ; are wholly under the control , of another . " The slaves of modern times , he adds ,
Johnson " are general defines ly purchased a slave as being like horses one manci or oxen pated . " to Our a master own Dr — .
resistance not a freem . " an— Mr a . Charles dependant Richardson —one who , on has the lost other the hand power , con of
siders a slave as a person , " who is reduced to captivity—to servitude—to bondage ; who is bound Leader or compelled in the Times to serve of ,
labour March , the or toil 30 th for another 53 . " in A reference " " to a former " letter " of mine to that journal , , , says ,
manner " In what we are way about should to we relate speak ? Let of persons us consider who are them circumstanced as inhabitants in of the a
and _distant then reg ask ion— ourselves say of New what Orl should eans— be no our matter inion about of the a nation colour in of which their skins _suet , op
10 A Season With The Dbessmakers.
10 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/10/
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