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Page 73 - After enjoying for a short time the unusual luxury of air, some water was brought; it was then that the extent of their sufferings was exposed in a fearful manner. They all rushed like maniacs toward it.
Page 350 - You have not got enough yet," said he; "pull up your clothes — lie down." The girl without any hesitation, without a word or look of remonstrance or entreaty, drew closely all her garments under her shoulders, and lay down upon the ground with her face toward the overseer, who continued to flog her with the raw-hide, across her naked loins and thighs, with as much strength as before.
Page 346 - The end is the profit of the master, his security and the public safety; the subject, one doomed in his own person, and his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may reap the fruits...
Page 349 - The negro was tied to a tree and whipped with switches. When Souther became fatigued with the labour of whipping, he called upon a negro man of his, and made him cob Sam with a shingle.
Page 72 - ... were thus thrust into one space 288 feet square ; and 336 into another space 800 feet square, giving to the whole an average of 23 inches, and to each of the women not more than 13 inches . . . We also found manacles and fetters of different kinds, but it appears that they had all been taken off before we boarded.
Page 349 - The whip was evidently in constant use, however. There were no rules on the subject, that I learned ; the overseers and drivers punished the negroes whenever they deemed it necessary, and in such manner, and with such severity as they thought fit. " If you don't work faster," or " If you don't work better," or "If you don't recollect what I tell you, I will have you flogged," are threats which I have often heard.
Page 331 - Christianity" had somehow become intimately and explicitly linked with "complexion." The 1705 statute declared That all servants imported and brought into this country, by sea or land, who were not christians in their native country (except Turks and Moors in amity with her majesty, and others...
Page 349 - The girl knelt on the ground ; he got off his horse, and holding him with his left hand, struck her thirty or forty blows across the shoulders with his tough, flexible, " raw-hide
Page 350 - I gave him rein and spur and we plunged into the bushes and scrambled fiercely up the steep acclivity. The screaming yells and the whip strokes had ceased when I reached the top of the bank. Choking, sobbing, spasmodic groans only were heard. I rode on to where the road, coming diagonally up the ravine, ran out upon the cottonfield. My young companion met me there, and immediately afterward the overseer. He laughed as he joined us, and said : " She meant to cheat me out of a day's work, and she has...
Page 6 - As to faces, the peculiarities of the Negro countenance are well known in caricature; but a truer pattern may be seen by those who wish to study it any day among the statues of the Egyptian rooms in the British Museum: the large gentle eye, the full but not overprotruding lips, the rounded contour, and the good-natured, easy, sensuous expression. This is the genuine African model...