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He bought a square mile or more, and for a time the field-hands sang, the gins groaned, and the mills buzzed. Then came a change. The agent's son embezzled the funds and ran off with them. Then the agent himself disappeared.
Many of these were field-hands sold to go to the cotton plantations, sold for "rascality." Do you know what that means? You think it is ugliness. But no; it is a DISEASE. It is a droll sort of malady, to which a learned Louisiana doctor has given a singular name, which I can't spell, and which you wouldn't know how to pronounce; but the symptoms I can describe.
Of course I except the cities, and speak only of the estates, where the house servants are neither better housed or accommodated than the field-hands.
Georgia field-hands are not accurate as Jews in preserving their genealogy; they do not anticipate a Messiah.
He was also a good table-waiter, and had served in the dining-room when there were guests. So it came that though properly a field-hand, yet in manner and speech he showed to advantage beside the slaves who were exclusively field-hands. Little Lizay too occupied a halfway place between these and the better-spoken, gentler-mannered house-servants.
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