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court were cautions the prison at about their taken and 200 different 800 to prison keep dollar trade ers them s in over s in the and . security p onl I lace was y , one . wandering astonished When watchman I was about at , and the there the few he , there went pre vast
about with me as showman . , He said they often did escape , by make and putting running the long man p up lanks say . I how , used wonder many in the they did carpenters did so , not but ' all r I escape suspect , against . I he could the did wall not not
care . It there is curious are too to see every in America where the want man of officials is his ; own in Europ official e and in this prison many every , man seemed every to be his own gaoler !
most I spent interesting , the other conversation evening with about some fre slavery e colored . Generall people , y and the had con a -
Then versation it is beg calle ins d exaggerated as like this did , ; t by hen , cruelt " ( as Have last you ni Oh ght xead / ) but I say Uncle , _" do I Tom suppose quite ? "
you bad / know 9 - and no last cases niht the Legree lad _' s told me y that . " " next door we to her , this as weekthe mistress g had run y a fork into , the palm of the hand
very of one of her , slavesand there it had stuck , until it was drawn out . This mistress is very , cruel ; she cruel is a than Germ Creoles an Jew . f French blk , German l ,
and Irishare considered more ; ree acs are aso cruel sometimes , . The worst case Mr . V knew was that of Mr . S . of Natchezwho had more than 1000 slaves , and exercised cruelties
he upon died wants . them M . D , to too make dreadful ( friend a slave to of tell X confess , and ' yet s ) tortures knows was allowed a him planter to by go , having who on till when his he
he teeth a planter allowed pulled last onl out ni y g . a ht pound Thi ( known s and planter to a M half . is M alive of . , ) meat abused and to flourishing as his very slaves cruel . dail because I y heard , and
never had a doctor for them when ill . MrsV— told me that MrH ( a planter she knows )
. - . would what to give do with all his them four but hundred they could slaves not their stay freedom here . if Liberia he knew is a
failureand in the North , they would be too harshly treated ; so he for stays goin , in his to plantation land or , France although Pie he has has a very family strong whom reasons he
acknowled any eluded education from ges g , all by Eng here society a wom , except an unless of of color it the . is , [ worst the and _iDlacee these descri quadroon children ption , and cannot which are get ex he
loes not wish them , to enter . Mrs . V , I told , you , is a woman of colora Creole of Louisiana ; now you know no free
was _person _with supposed a warrant of color , by has , taken the a ri before police ght to , the not live here to be , unless and of this had _Tborn state all her the , and e , bother and served she of mayor
_proving herself , a Creole . You see the p , ower of bother the police lave nore . annoy Every ing year . No the sailors regulations , or cooks concerning , and , tli if e free from free , negroes the no colored are leland from the vessels unless by a mayor
peop , can pass ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/43/
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