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SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH. 183
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4 Sion Neio To Call Orleans On A , Lad F...
Orleans in two months . How many that would be you may guess , as New three were Orleans going Sunday on the February morning I 1 went 4 th . — down I went . to my Baptist
_friends' service at , half-past , ten , and finding only one old _negress there church , sitting but she under assured the verandah me there , would I was " afraid be in time there that would she be came no
; , earl and y presentl , and that y came church stragg would ling in beg in in other at twelve shirts old ladies o ' and clock , _broadcloth , and so I gay sat young down and , ladiesand five gentlemen spotless ,
of rather various , _deep comp chocolate lexion , with from blue pale here li yellow ghts in or it all , , olive which shook to is hands jet the "black blackest and ! sat or
black and talked complexion in the I most have friendl seen y manner . We ; they were very , cheerful ill and pleasant . One old lady , nearly white , said she was very
yesterday said" Ah , and thoug what ht children her time we was are come we fix ; whereupon ourselves all her read friend y to ;
but , God , yes don , 't want us . "We must abide His time , and He will tackle go , prettquickHe knows when it is right to fix us . Why ,
out I rememb of us bed up er and bein puts y g very on . ill a , clean and feeling shirtwashes sure I should niy face die and ; so unlocks I gets
, doorand I lies down all decent and ready . " my The handsomest , dressed womanand the one whose face also
herself expressed She the most had a intelli book gence in her , told hand ine , she and was a free Sunday ; she -scho had ol boug news ht
-. She told me she attended the , Sunday-school of Christ paper near Church fifty . , , where and was white learning ladies to taug read ht . free She colored told me peop she was le . a She washer colored was
women and ironer were , and not gained respectable a good . I living wish , I but could that give many you much free every to write word . of the conversation ; but I cannot do it , I have so
They sang : — " Pm Peter going John home I then to g shall lorie ; see .
- Matthew I ' m _going , , * L home mke , , to I then glorie shall ; see . Pm going home to glorie , " & c , & c .
them for as I the they think sing One sang they ing old different surge put lad in d alon the names g so n I ames intensel felt all the of carrie y every time that d , along one she stamp they dropped too ing , wante and time down san d , so g to from wi that see th , y sang
exhaustion . . There was no occasion to say to her , as one of the men sister , called sing up out ! " to another Presently old came lady a who mean was -looking tired , whit " Sing e man up , who The my
wished to were preach nervous ; he but said tol he d was him sent the Rev by some . Benj other amin minister was . going negroes to preach , when the _iDolite , old bully reminded , the police-officer , much came up of , some and
one said at to home tlie small " Sir ! white no preaching man , who * here from any me one very I don't know , sir ! ,
Slavery In The South. 183
SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH . 183
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/39/
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