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He was much attached to Margaret, and not less to Madame de la Tour, whose negro-woman, Mary, he had married at the time of Virginia's birth; and he was passionately fond of his wife. Mary was born at Madagascar, from whence she had brought a few arts of industry. She could weave baskets, and a sort of stuff, with long grass that grows in the woods.
I have no self I am thy slave! Kill me, if thou wilt: but speak! The blaze sank into a soft, warm, mellow gleam, and beyond it what appeared? The negro-woman, with one finger upon her lips, as with an imploring, all but despairing look, she held up to him her little crucifix. He saw it.
Taylor the Government Secretary, from being insulted by a poor Negro-woman? It is preposterous. Her moral character is so bad, that she would prove very troublesome should she come to the colony "without any restraint." "Any restraint?" But this, I suppose, is the argumentum ad gubernatorem to frighten the governor.
An old negro-woman went in and out of the little back-door of the tent, pursued by flies and gnats, while she cleared away a variety of earthen dishes with the remains of food pomegranate-peelings, breadcrumbs, and garlic-tops which had been lying on one of the carpets for some hours since the girls had finished their dinner.
An old negro-woman went in and out of the little back-door of the tent, pursued by flies and gnats, while she cleared away a variety of earthen dishes with the remains of food pomegranate-peelings, breadcrumbs, and garlic-tops which had been lying on one of the carpets for some hours since the girls had finished their dinner.
In that cabinet are all my papers all I have is yours. Your jewels are safe buried with mine. The negro-woman, Eudaimon's wife, knows where. I made her swear secrecy upon her little wooden idol, and, Christian as she is, she has been honest. Make her rich for life. She hid your poor old mother, and kept her safe to see her boy come home.
Wood's justification of his conduct in thus obstinately refusing manumission to the Negro-woman who had escaped from his "house of bondage." Let us now endeavour to estimate the validity of the excuses assigned, and the allegations advanced by him, for the information of Governor Sir Patrick Ross, in this deliberate statement of his case.
"Her history was written in her face," said my friend; "its expression had changed into that of a fiend. She brought but few slaves with her; and those few were of course compelled to perform additional labor. One faithful negro-woman nursed the twins of her mistress, and did all the washing, ironing, and scouring.
Philammon followed, sulkily and unwillingly, at a foot's pace; but he had not gone a dozen yards when a pitiable voice at his feet called to him 'Help! mercy! Do not leave me here to be murdered! I am a Christian; indeed I am a Christian! Philammon stooped, and lifted from the ground a comely negro-woman, weeping, and shivering in a few tattered remnants of clothing.
I may have mistaken some of the punctilios of the arrangement, for my very soul was sick. My landlady was sister to the man who owned the drove; and from her I learned that he had, a few days previous, bought a negro-woman, who refused to go with him. A blow on the side of her head with the butt of his whip, soon brought her to the ground; he then tied her, and carried her off.
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