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The result was a severe illness, which caused her partial paralysis and total blindness from which she never recovered. In 1888 she handed the writer a $5 gold coin for the work among the freedmen with this remark: "First the freedman; then the Indian." Out of a narrow income she constantly gave generously to the boards of the church and to the poor around her.
"Hurry!" cried the freedmen. Nero placed the knife to his neck, but pushed it only timidly. It was clear that he would never have courage to thrust it in. Epaphroditus pushed his hand suddenly, the knife sank to the handle. Nero's eyes turned in his head, terrible, immense, frightened. "I bring thee life!" cried the centurion, entering. "Too late!" said Nero, with a hoarse voice; then he added,
But wholesale colonization was clearly impossible. The freedmen neither could nor would be transported in a body to Africa. And had it been possible it would have stripped the land of laborers and left it a waste. The South's assumption was that the negro was intrinsically an inferior and must be kept subordinate to the white man.
Let us now turn to the property of freedmen. If he died intestate, but left a family heir, the patron was not entitled to any portion of this property, and this, if the family heir was a natural child, seemed to be no grievance; but if he was an adoptive child, it was clearly unfair that the patron should be debarred from all right to the succession.
Eaton, John. Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: reminiscences of the Civil War with special reference to the work for the Contrabands, and the Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley. Epstein. The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh. Exposition of the Object and Plan of the American Union for the Belief and Improvement of the Colored Race. Fee, John G. Anti-Slavery Manual. Fertig, James Walter.
But I wish to ask of the Senator who framed this bill why we shall now provide for the transportation of freedmen and refugees.
The free tenants-on-sufferance, sprung from families of decayed farmers, dependents, and freedmen, formed the great bulk of the proletariate, and were not much more dependent on the landlord than the petty leaseholder inevitably is with reference to the great proprietor. The slaves tilling the fields for a master were beyond doubt far less numerous than the free tenants.
Prefixed to this treatise, are some epigrams written on the banishment of Seneca, but whether or not by himself, is uncertain. Immediately subsequent to the preceding, is another treatise on Consolation, addressed to one of Claudius's freedmen, named Polybius, perhaps after the learned historian.
A curious mess he looked upon: little despotisms, communistic experiments, slavery, peonage, business speculations, organized charity, unorganized almsgiving, all reeling on under the guise of helping the freedmen, and all enshrined in the smoke and blood of the war and the cursing and silence of angry men.
The educational privileges which the colored people there enjoyed, however, were largely paid for by the progressive freedmen themselves. Some of them educated their children in France. Charleston, South Carolina, furnished a good example of a center of unusual activity and rapid strides of self-educating urban Negroes.
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