Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 52, Vol. I, December 27, 1884

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 52, Vol. I, December 27, 1884

Those who profess to know all about slavery will tell you that the negro was a thousand times happier as a slave than he is as a freeman. This may be true of some of the race; we do not enter into the question. The field-hand was in general an entirely irresponsible creature. He belonged to his master as thoroughly as the dogs and horses did, and he was of infinitely less importance. He had his daily task and his daily rations; he had also, if owned by a kind master, his little amusements, chief of which were the dance and the camp-meeting. Such a life would naturally not inspire one with any very high ambition. Give the plantation negro his hoe-cake and his bit of fat pork, his banjo, and the privilege of telling his experience to an unlimited chorus of Halleluiahs! and Bress de Lords! and you gave him perfect bliss. If the white man was his oppressor, he seldom knew it. De family were, except in rare cases, admired and revered. And these poor creatures who did not own themselves, assumed and felt an air of proud proprietorship when speaking of the glories of their masters state, and specially of each young masr and lily miss. Young masr was at once their tyrant and their darling. I have heard a wedding ceremony wound up with, Hark, from de tombs a doleful sound! with all its concomitant tears and groans, because Marse Harry had so ordered. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66748
Author: Various
Release Date: Nov 16, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: William and Robert Chambers
Publication Date: 1853
Publisher Country: United Kingdom