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374 OF THOSE WHO.ARE THE PROPERTY OF: OT...
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There Is No Doubt That In The Gig-Antic ...
otlier society after that of the very best in England . After the experience of our residence in the South we almost agree with
her charming . They : no have peop a le certain so soon genius respond of genialit to kindness Slav y which . States This is peculiarl and cheerful y -
ness of the negroes misleads visitors to the e , they almost begin to think slavery may be the cause of it , as they are told incessantlthat it is .
The negro race y is very affectionate , and the ties between parents and children strong * and deep . What , then , must be the suffering
of mothers and children when they are exposed to separation at anmomenton the whim or necessity of the master ! "While in
Americ and y I never a , I asked , recollect many a old sing female le instance slaves wher of an e were old woman their children having ,
all her children with her or near her ; generally she was alone , and her . children dispersed , she knew not whither . In the slave depots
at New Orleans , and in the auction rooms , I never saw families sold the together child ; was often a mother but not and often one a mother child put and up a child together above , when six young
or seven . Scenes I , saw in negro sale rooms cannot be related , well they were as justice so atrocious Such , is so this shocking . peculiar to institution all feelings . " of But decency I never as
. saw such things , " said a lady of New Orleans to me . " You should live not in have New gon Orle e to ans such and see places nothing / ' said ; but another for . all Yes that , it these is easy things to
exist . And for all the smooth appearances in the Southern States , there is a fearful amount of misery and heartbreak caused by the
necessary action of the slave laws . Of the amount of domestic tand crueltit is more difficult to judgebut I am . convinced
it yranny is very great . In y my small circle at New Orleans , I knew of two casesand the number I heard of was very great .
The , system of slavery might be , perhaps , upheld logically if the race negro made race to could wait be on proved men . to But be not facts men are , but too a strong kind of and monkey the
, what Southern they themselves up do holders say ; of is that , slavery that slavery the have negroes is never a _" attemp are divine inferior ted institution to prove and cannot " that for ;
civilizing govern and Christianizing these savage African races . As in regards some the qualities alleged and inferiorit how far y , I inferior am convinced in others the cannot negro be is asserted superior
until he and the , white man are placed in exactly the same position . creditabl Where they y . We have will been now , the go on negro to say has something not acquitted of the himself actions dis of
those who hold others as property . At the time when the Federal Union was established there was
determined And a strong if Washington feeling to hav against e no , Jefferson union slavery with , and and Slave a strong the States North part , it , y is had for prob emanci been able slavery pation firmly ;
never would have been increased to its present dimensions . But
374 Of Those Who.Are The Property Of: Ot...
374 OF THOSE WHO . ARE THE PROPERTY OF : OTHERS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/14/
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