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SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH. 117
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told her that this negress seized the widow and shook her , because T the he widow neress called seized one her of her tress children and said a good ie You -for dare -nothing ill-treat hussey my .
children g when I go out in all weathers to , get you your living , and Ideas I bring mpossib of bac l justice e k , all almos I can caused t , for to you you by . " slavery to Thi conceive s ; is I considered still the think utter outr the depravi ageous whites ty . in suffer It all is
most New , spir Orleans itually F ebruar phy y sicall 11 th y , . 1858 . —I know very well that to
Miss thoug call on h M no colored t against ? s book lad the y is which legal an un has code pardonable no . t I have offence o read inions to against -ni gh f t nearl the ts a social b al t l any p
, be slavery Stirling very ; , poor Sir latel C y book . l < also yell s , on I and have a rich Dickens read subj ' Miss s ect " . Notes B The : , " two ' and s , of and l al adies the l seem no life t lived long to of me with ago the to
lowl ladies . I have polite seen gentlemen durin , and nine sa weeks w nothing in New Orleansfar more of not the dare y real to fac ive ts m of , slavery oini g my s than exc those ept to two say ladies theirs , and are founde yet , I could d on
insufficien g t da y ta p and that , the evils I see here are immenseand ver the y corrupting influence , of this system so hadso _deejithat it see , ? ns
almost impossible to exaggerate it . To know the , real character , of the Africanmust not see him or her in rich familieswhere you
or are mis a tresses g , you t , because likeMiss they M will always ' s experienc say just e of what New , the Orleans masters is
. wish utterl to y insi know gnificant something , and unworthy of the truth attention ; he saw . Read a great Olmsted deal , ' thoug s if you h with
he never seems to have become intimately acquainted any ne the gro wife or of a lore rich d person lanter . ( I when have I been wife in the of house course of Mrs . M aware ,
that the Southern law p will , not legalize say a union , with a colored woman . ) Hthredauhters and I are quite friendly ; the eldest is more
er e g than them friendl because y with I hav me e come —quit s e affectionate suddenlinto . their I have secrets said little that about I felt y
uncertain , about many things concerning them . Now I , understand them them , one but day shall not M g acquaintance ive you their with history them , as has I hope shown you me will much see
of African and . New y Orleans life—what no English lady ever saw before . Mrs . Dr . C came this morning to take me to one of has
me the daug she public hter wishe there school d . so I much was examinations amused to ive , as her at we Fr little walked anklin girl down School ( nine , years at ; her she ) a telling taste a g
for anatomy ; but the child hated it , and loved the outside of things are Nature all , on is forms the stronger , same colors tack than —all , long mothers trifling ing to . things make These — fac women better -similes ' s th li of an g themselves hts , anatomy women . ! the children to
gro I tell w up them as they they will . The wrong school and examination absurd ; leave was very unsafe-
Slavery In The South. 117
SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH . 117
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/45/
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