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96 iSiLAVERY in AMERICA.
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^» There Are Fifteen Slave States In Ame...
slave holders . They expressed , a desire that we should write _afoodk ? and give a true picture of slaveryto further which undertaking '
they related to us wonderful histories , of their own slaves , their , virtuestheir marvellous affection for their mastersand their
happines , s in a state of slavery . General H ., one of , the most eloquent , affirmed that no gentleman would ever separate a slave
family ; and this was assented to by all present , at least six or seven _persons . On inquiry we found that one of these ladies had a
black nurse for her baby , whom she was bringing from Kentucky to live with her in Louisiana , and that this nurse had leffc her husband
and _& ve young children behind in Kentucky , probably never to see them again . We next found that one of the gentlemen was a slave
dealer , and that he had a farm in Maryland , which he made a sort of depot , collecting slaves there whom he afterwards sold South for
the New Orleans market . The very first slave woman we spoke to after the conversation with these ladies and gentlementold us her
two children had been sold South , and one she supposed , was then working in those fields of Louisiana _^ Her story was a very sad
one , and she ended it by saying , "Mum , we poor creeturs have need to believe in Godfor if God Almighty will not be good to
, us some day , why were we born ? "When I hear of his delivering Ms people from bondage , I know it means the poor African . Never
forget me , never forget what we suffer . " Another instance of deliberate falsehood occurred to us at New Orleans . A slave
auctioneer there , who was remarkably polite to us , informed us that , in Louisiana , the law permitted a slave to buy himself off for
a fixed price , that the law did not allow of the separation of families * that a slavediscontented with his mastermiht get himself sold
to another b , y appealing :, with other statements , g _equally false , to prove the humanity of the law towards slaves . Information given
in the slave States upon any point concerning , however remotely , the question of slavery can never be relied upon . This question
perverts the views of the most intelligent , and prevents the formation and every of a just book jud has gment to be on adapted almost any to the subj e peculiar ct . Every institution opinion _/
Longfellow ' s poems are published down South without those on slavery . The beautiful print of Ary Scheffer _' s" € hristus
Consolator' is taken as an illustration to a , bookand the © lave looking , for consolation is leffc out . The prayer faculty of loving , and
even of perceiving truth , is almost destroyed by the blighting influences of this atrocious system .
The effect of slavery on the whites was the part of the subject to which we gave most attention , and also that of which we had the
best means of judging . At New Orleans we had good opportunities of seeing family lifeand the effects of slavery on the familyand
we also heard accounts , from trustworthwitnessesboth French , and English . The result upon our minds y was , there , is in no part of
Europe such a vicious state of society . In Mahometan countries a
96 Isilavery In America.
96 _iSiLAVERY in AMERICA .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/24/
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