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4 Sion Neio To Call Orleans On A , Lad F...
It and is true sellin . g It or is of positive the separation nonsense of to parents talk of the and rarity children of buy as un ing - -
common . A , lady yesterday told me of her brother , a minister in Georgia , and a slave-owner , who , as soon as a negro girl is fifteen ,
takes her into the field and tells her to choose a husband , saying ,. be " When married you . ' have At three found I one went who to likes dine you at , the come B— to me s ' , ; and there you was shall a
party of nine and a splendid dinner . The ladies were very fashionable , but not very intelligent . The youngest lady told me " she' was a
¦ very acute observer , and had seen New Orleans in a few weeks . " Her father has a sugar plantationbut she and her mother live in
, New York , as so many planters' families do . She was like all the young ladies I have seen in America—yellow , skinny , and sickly—but
with good features and an oval face . In no city have I seen such elegantly-dressed ladies—very French , but in a certain way very
picturesque . The hair is always exquisitely arranged , and always hj women of color . Conversation is not very brilliant , and I find
the negroes really better company than the best society here . My friends tell me that the dances are very agreeable and brilliant
affairs , but I do not mean to go to any ; I think they are much alike all over the world—the fashionable world , that is to say .
Saturday , February 13 t / i . —Mrs . P , the wife of a sugar planter , came to call on me ; she is a Creole , but her parents are from
the-North . I have seen no one here towards whom I have felt so much sympathy and esteem as towards her ; she looks like one of the old
Puritan stock . To-day for the first time we had a little confidential talk about " the Institution . " She told me that one of her relations ,
who owned a plantation , wished to free all his negroes gradually , and would have freed them at once if he had thought it right ; but
said she , "My relation hoped to _prepare the way gradually for the amelioration of his people , and ultimately give them freedom . It
is very difficult to know what to do . In the first place , freed negroes cannot live in Louisiana . The Northern States will not receive them ,
and sending them to Liberia is very cruel . Mr . , an acquaintance of ourshas received letters from his negroes thereand many are
, , absolutely starving ; that place is a failure . " She also told me that , on their own estate the negroes were very _hajDpy , and that she
did not think any would willingly leave them , _excej _3 t perhaps some hands lately boug \ ht . A church has been builtand all the negroes
, are compelled to go once on Sunday , as there are many who otherwise would not go . Some years ago her husband had many _Coaig-os ;
now only one remains , and he clings to his old idolatry , in spite of all she can do to cure him of it . She dare not instruct the mass , of
negroes because it is contrary to la _> y _, but she teaches reading and writing to everyone who comes near enough to her . She loves the
plantation , and tries to do all the good she can there . Mr . P has taken me to see a picture which produces a great
sensationin America wherever it is exhibited—Peale _' s Court of Death——
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/36/
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