Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828, Volumen3Cadell and Company, 1829 |
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Página 227 - I have no wish, God knows ! to defend slavery in the abstract; neither do I say that it is the best state of things which might be supposed to exist in those countries ; but I do think it is highly important that we should look this great and established evil squarely in the face, and consider its bearings with as little prejudice as possible.
Página 191 - We don't care what they do when their tasks are over — we lose sight of them till next day. Their morals and manners are in their own keeping. The men may have, for instance, as many wives as they please, so long as they do not quarrel about such matters.
Página 235 - ... still, I fear, be used; but it may be handled with more method and less passion. These things, properly brought about, beget generous sympathies in both parties ; for here, too, the reaction I spoke of formerly soon shows itself — the slave works not only more, but to better purpose, and as the master feels it his interest, it soon becomes his pleasure, to extend the system further — which again leads to fresh advantages and fresh reactions, all of the same salutary description. The effect...
Página 222 - ... the coating which had encircled them, fly off like sparks to the right and left, while the cotton itself passes between the cylinders. The sharp iron teeth of the comb, moving with great velocity, sometimes break the seeds; then the minute pieces are instantly hurried on, and pass between the rollers with the cotton. These stray particles are afterwards separated by hand, a process which is called mating.
Página 57 - ... in order to smooth away the difficulties incident to the very nature of our being, and the boundless complication in our interests. But when a deliberative body come to discuss a question in a spirit of avowed misunderstanding, without the smallest wish to agree, the result, as far as actual work is concerned, may easily be conceived. Yet I defy any imagination, however active, to form a just conception of the rambling and irritating nature of a debate in congress, without actually attending...
Página 252 - Our road, on the 22d of March — if road it ought to be called — lay through the heart of the forest, our course being pointed out solely by blazes, or slices, cut as guiding marks on the sides of the trees. It was really like navigating by means of the stars over the trackless ocean!
Página 158 - ... you will at first believe possible. At least an equal period of time, but perhaps ten or a hundred times as long a period may be required to unwind the thread again, and to free the country from this moral and political entanglement. " In the mean time, it is in vain to deny that — circumstances as they now are — the negroes belong almost to a different race — so different, that no philanthropist or abolitionist, however enthusiastic, pretends to say that an amalgamation can take place...
Página 224 - On the plantation to which these details refer, the negroes are allowed three holidays at Christmas, when they have plenty of beef and whisky. At the end of this period they are often, I am told, completely done up with eating, drinking, and dancing. On that plantation they are allowed to have as much land as they choose to plant, and the master's family is supplied entirely with poultry and eggs from this free work of the slaves, who are regularly paid at the following rates: Eggs...
Página 5 - ... spider's web. Every member has a snug, stuffed, comfortable arm-chair allotted to him, besides a writing-desk furnished with all the apparatus of paper, pens and ink, and a drawer underneath, of which he keeps the key. This noble room, or more properly amphitheatre, is not well adapted for hearing. Were it actually a theatre, and the audience seated where the members are placed, while the actors addressed them from the corridor or open space behind the speaker's chair, along the diameter of the...
Página 179 - Plantation It appears that when the negroes go to the field in the morning, it is the custom to leave such children behind, as are too young to work. Accordingly, we found a sober old matron in charge of three dozen shining urchins, collected together in a house near the centre of the [slave] village. Over the fire hung a large pot of hominy, a preparation of Indian corn, making ready for the little folks' supper, and a very merry, happy-looking party they seemed.