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A SEASON WITH THE DKESSMAKEES. 11
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
with things the are hardshi tolerated ps of ? their They lot are —young of a sex women and age for the the least most qualified part , between to strugg 16
le-, and 30 years of age . " The same Journal goes on to
sayto them " select As at we their the would busy not season of deal cotton , just in - exagger as i eking writers ations and upon sugar , we Ameri would -crushin can premise g slavery as illustr that are ations we careful take of
in their theories in ill season . -venti The l youn ated g rooms femal p e or slaves rooms , then that , of are whom not ventilated we speak , at are all worked , for it
is another found gangs kind by experience which damage that , if the , air work be admitted upon which , it brings the seamstresses with it ' blacks are em ' o _€
p till loyed morning . . Their — , stich occup , stich ation , stitch is to , sew without from pause morning —without till night speech , and — from without night a
_smile—withoiit a sigh . " icture True , of indeed the slaves , is the of language the needle here ; so emp faithful loyed indeed ! A faithful that I
must p venture to transcribe even further details—or rather , let me say— -comments from the same pen .
the " mill Not a no word doubt of but remonstrance what awaits is them allowed on , the or is other possible side . of They the door may ? leave
starvation of quences a very the , Ladies terrible if . , th They ey of state be would , honest of land things scarcel who ; if , y and not have escape , one in pronounced probabilit which from slavery claims y , themselves prostitution the that anxious way so . and loudl Surel consideration its y y against conse this is
the horrors of negro Eng slavery , in the United States . Had this system of oppression against persons of their from own them sex been really exercised of in New for
Orleansit would have elicited many expressions sympathy the cruell sufferers y overwork , , and wretched of abhorrence creatures for so the unfitted cruel to task the -masters toil . " who would so
throp Eng And land ic princi these , in a atrocities les country : in a country that are actuall boasts that y caused its perpetrated liberal its voice views in to , enli sound its g p htened hilan from
one end of the p world to the otherto secure the emancipation of the " black" slavesbut has hith , erto forgotten the unfortunate
will upon _" white witness us " , and ones these that at home emaciated the , . season A new forms of era the , toiling is present , I hope at year , their however is needles the , last dawning more that
than what clergyman twelve capacity , lawyer hours , whether , or a doctor . day as . a , mercantile Was merchan ever t , clerk banker man , , soldier " , or no tradesman , m or atter sailor in , ,
with mechanic out interm , or labourer ission 16 , ever and known 18 hours to pursue a day , which his occupation yet these ,
u women " are expected , —are commanded to do ; and this too without any additional remuneration for " over-time coul . d " No it
man could do it—no horse could do it—no oxen , and yet frail and delicate girls are watch obliged to do it . with the
Mothers of families I you who your offspring morning most jealous walk and , their anxious ride care or ; drive who , insist their upon lessons your in daug dancing hters of *
and gymnastics ; who detect in a moment the symptoms an
A Season With The Dkessmakees. 11
A SEASON WITH THE DKESSMAKEES . 11
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/11/
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