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SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH. 113
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German and Irish , women hearty and stout , but all the American ladies are sickly .
Jan . 21 . —The last few days we have seen a few people , " but no ished thing more curious and . more Heard at more the stup stories id extravagance like the above . of the I am women aston . - house
Mrs . H , who gains her living by keeping a boarding , has All the spent ladies , she , even says , little at least girls £ 60 , wear on hair white dyes powder in the on last their ten years faces , .
melites would and many refuse and rouge grey to walk ; linen all with wear dresses me silk are dresses Fashion so singular in rules the here so street absolutel that , and many my that ladies car to - y
. wear a hat requires the courage of Van Arnburgh , or George Fox . Leather boots for ladies are considered monstrous . I never saw
such utter astonishment as is depicted on the faces of the populace when I return from a sketching excursion ; I do not like to come
back house alone would , so lend X me always amount comes of for flower me . -garden The peop bonnets le in if the . I
would but go out in them any . This is so like the Americans ; , they are and kindbut will not let you go your own way in
the generous world wardrobe . My considered little p , lain shabb bonnet and and triste plaid . ribbon I never is desp saw ised , all le y peop
dress my so muchand I must confesstoowith a certain tastewhich is ht from , the French . , , x \ ,
caug February 3 . —Dined at the O s' ; had a long talk about free footman negroes ; who Mr . was O- first thinks a slave they and work then well a freecbnan for wages and . he He did had his a
work just as well as in slavery , but not any better , . He says the a greater excellent " very part _resjoectable mechanics of the mulatto class and . He p quit opulation says e distingui some of the of shed t town ] ie colored for is free learning , peop and le forms ; are he
knows are very and of remarkable efforts one jud have ge . , , been Many one made professor of the latel free , to colored and emp some loy peop them few le are in other extremel factories s , who y ;
poor many , are working at the sewing-machines y , making clothes for the In Barbadoeshe all the land is in cultivation ,
masters and negroes the negroes have . less must trouble work , with or starve says them , ; , and than they they do had work when , and they the where the
were slaves . In Jamaica there is still uncultivated land , changed negroes they must for can work the live worse they without do in work fort work y . ye Mr ars , . and . O When they said it prefer "was this all that town French most , but has drunken , it much when was .
orderl lace y in and the sober earth . ; now But it the is Irish disorderl and y , Germans and the improve after they p have been here some time . Mr . O agrees with X
quence the in He thinking peop told , hi le g me her , ¦ will that in a curious be morals when much . the fact The improved vine about cheap is snakes cultivated whisk in sobriety y that ruins and a few them and wine , years _. in is cheap conse ago , - , ,
Slavery In The South. 113
SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH . 113
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/41/
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