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XLIX.—SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH.
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Xlix.—Slavery In The South.
XLIX . —SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH . ( Continued from page 187 . )
<> Savannah, 4th March.—Here In This Hou...
_<> Savannah 4 th March . —Here in this house the cowhide is used
to the back , of _niy nice Clara , who works so hard . I was near going- down to make an outcryas Don Quixote would have done ;
, but on second thoughts felt certain I should make matters worse , so I consoled Clara with fall eyes , and wait my time to _piit in a
word , if I can , to the mistress of this boarding house , who , by the byis a Northern , woman ; and the Southerners all say they make
the , worst masters and mistresses ; and next in honor come the Frenchbecausewhen badthe French have a prodigious capacity
of wicke , dness . , But the slaves , in French households are generally treated more as the family and are taught more than by Americans .
I find we have negroes in this house ; they are hired out " to the mistress ; it is a bad look-out for slaves to be hired out to a
boarding house . Sunday , the 7 th . —rl have been to the Methodist Church . It is a
pleasant-looking , white , Noah's ark kind of building , very large , very whitevery cheerfulwith windows all round . As I approached
I heard sin , ging . The minister , , a slave and a very black negro , gave a good sermon on the Comniunion . In the evening I went to my
Baptist Church close by , and heard another slave preach . ;—the regular ministeralso a slavewhom I heard last Sundaywas not
there . I asked a , few _qiiestions , about him of a very old , man who seemed to be an authority . He said the minister could read and
write and had studied . I asked how he could study if lie worked all day ? and _wasjanswered , " He studied at night . Of course he can't
do as well as white men who have all their time , but he worries and scufflesand so gets a little learning . " I found the congregation as
polite as , usual , but the negroes are more reserved in their manners here than at New Orleans . They looked well and happy . I have
talked to many , and cannot say they looked unhappy even when their circumstances would naturally have made tlieia so . For
instance , a woman told me to-day that she was the j > roperty of a gentleman in the country , who hires her out to a white washerwoman
here in Savannah . Here she always stays unless she is going to have a childand then she goes to the plantationand stays till the
child can toddle , ; then out to work again . She , lias had five childrenbut never s _^ es them except under these circumstances .
" Well , " , I said , _" how do you get along ? " " Oh , splendidly;—of courseI must get along . You see there ain't no other way : —
splendidly , . " Sometimes , it i _$ true , I meet faces which are tragedies to look on ; but these are generally mulattoes .
much 12 th . — John This Og lethorp a very , the nourishing noble Eng , p lishman leasant city who founded I like it it , very had
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/45/
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