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SLAVEEY IN THE SOUTH. 265
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<> Savannah, 4th March.—Here In This Hou...
Self . —But liave they not souls , and sliould not they read the Bible ?
Some . — -Oh yes , they have souls ; but oral instruction is best for " them .
Mrs . JB .- —No ; I do think every one should be alble to read the : Bible .
Mrs . H . —If you teach them to read they will run away . Mrs . JB . ( who lives in Louisvilleand is evidentlverkind to
• her slaves . )—Well , I say if they will , run away , let them y . y Mr . and Mrs . H . ( who , by the way , are bringing South a woman
: i w Let ho them leaves run a husb away if they and - five will ! ch W ildren hy , every behind negro her in would Kent run ucky a . way )—
if he could ! _Peojjle don't like to lose their servants ! Others said it made the negroes unhappy to learn how to read .
.. And what was the use of it to them ? They were inferior to the whites and must always remain so .
Self . —But you say they improve , and are . better off every year , and there is a wonderful difference between the African as he comes
from his own country and as he is after two or three generations in America . How can you tell where tliat improvement
• will stop ? them Mr . much C . — Yes truc , they tion im and prove for ; making but tha t t is no discon reason tented for , for givin they g
never will be emancipated . We cannot consent to lose our property . read Mrs Uncle . B Tom -, af ? ter " some general conversation , said , " Have you
I told her I had . Mrs . JB . —If there is a creature living I hateifs that Mrs .
JBeecher . , This was said with an expression of bitter feeling which distorted
her good face until every vestige of humanity disappeared ; under its influence she miht equal " Brooks' lorious Manifestation
against Sunnier . " gg I do not know how others may feel , but I cannot come amongst
these people without the perception that every standard of right and wrong is unconsciousllostand that they are wretched in
themselves and degraded by y this , one falsehood in the midst of which they dwell—to live in the belief of a vital falsehood poisons all the
springs of life . * The next morning a boat "was moored close by a cotton plantation
and my friends the negroes knocked me up to go and see how " the poor creatures worklike beastshundreds of ' emand a white
, , , overseer . " My husband went out into the field and brought me a bunch of the cotton plant , and I sat down after breakfast in the
cabin to draw it . Mr . C , the Californian gentleman , came and sat by me and said , "I wish you , Madam , would write a book
on America ; you are more candid and cool in your judgments than _, -any English traveller I have met . You will give a fair picture of
YOI / . Till . XJ
Slaveey In The South. 265
_SLAVEEY IN THE SOUTH . 265
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/49/
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