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112 SIAVEKY IN THE SOUTH.
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and gave her a night of it , with only a pine board and a blanket , to cool her psalm-singing humbug . She had to pay fifty dollars for
the first offence—it won't be so easy next time- —and I gave her a "bit of my mind : I told her what I thought of her . "
" Well , what did you think ? " " I told her I knew she had a nigger for a husband !"
You may imagine I was in a state of fear , for having reported "what . I had seen ; but how could I suspect that what I had seen so
openly done under the officer of the law teas against the law / How impossible it is for all these regulations to be carried out , and how
very brutal and absurd they are ! Last year all the negro churches were shut up" because they were poisoned with abolition by a
, black bishop from Illinois . " This bishop was well pounded by the colonel before the whole congregation one Sunday , and then sent
out of New Orleans . The colonel and I are good friends , but if I stayed here much
longer , I think I should have the pleasure of seeing the 6 elod gings " he has " down town" which he alludes to frequently in my
pre-, sence . About churches , you must remember that the negroes can attend any white church , and do so in great numbers ; but none seem
to answer the need in their souls of sympathy , and the desire they have to aid in worship , except the Catholic churches . I know that
negro slaves do go to school here , and I have the clue to some of the schools , but it is almost impossible for me to follow it up , without
getting myself or the teachers into a scrape . Four years ago fa poor old Englishman who had sixty slave scholars was sent to
prison for eleven months , and died from the effects of the imprisonment . Two other schools I have heard of as having been shut up
quite lately . I have also come across an Englishwoman ( a simpleton ) who was very nearly becoming a teacher to slaves , for the sake of
the high wages promised "but a placee wife ( a lady whom I knew ) warned her and saved her from getting into a scrape . The slaves
do learn to read , in spite of the law , more and more every year , but they learn also to be secret in their dealings and to co-operate
wonderfully to deceive the whites . These laws are utterly useless to protect the whites against the risings of the slaves ; I believe
they only increase the danger , by making the slaves adepts at conspiracy . The little children of seven or eight _tvho go to school hide the
fact , and deny it if they are ashed . It is very difficult to get at truth here . I get generally opposite statementsif I ask peo 2 _? le a
, question ; therefore I am very careful not to report the strange stories I hear , unless I can ascertain their truth . The whites
are more corrupted by slavery than , the blacks . The negroes suffer little physically , but the white ladies are ruined in liealth
hy the horror they have of all work and all exertion . Walking , evenis not comme il faut for a lady who can send twelve slaves
, for anything she wants . I do not believe it is the climate so
much as the system which has ruined their health ., for I see
112 Siaveky In The South.
112 SIAVEKY IN THE SOUTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/40/
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