jordern

Updated: May 27, 2025

"Oh yo, bredern, is yer gwine ober Jordern?" Half-asleep, they thought, but with dull questionings at work in his brain, some queer notions about freedom, of that unknown North, mostly mixed with his remembrance of his father, a vicious old negro, that in Pennsylvania would have worked out his salvation in the under cell of the penitentiary, but in Georgia, whipped into heroism, had betaken himself into the swamp, and never returned.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862