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Updated: June 24, 2025
It was one-room life under one of its worst phases; and, in addition to other drawbacks, the inmates suffered from cold and draughts in winter and from heat in summer. As a rule, the children of the slave-cabin knew nothing of those ordinary sports and pastimes which relieve and give variety to the early days of the young under happier circumstances.
We have seen a string of the little cages containing the glittering insects hung in a slave-cabin in festoons, like colored lamps in fancy-goods stores in America. The effect of the evanescent light thus produced is very peculiar, but the number of insects employed insures a sufficiently steady effect for ordinary purposes.
To find one's self sold into slavery must be a thoroughly unpleasant experience; yet when George Leicester that night found himself actually a slave, the tenant of a slave-cabin, and with slaves only for his future companions and associates, he felt by no means discouraged.
Meantime I'm going to look up an altogether wonderful teacher for myself, and then for comparing notes. My spirits begin to rise, they have been rather damp all the morning, but I see fun in the distance. "We are to have a sensation this afternoon in the shape of a troupe of singers called the Tennesseeans negroes, you know, and they are to give slave-cabin songs and the like.
It is the dealings of God in guiding one of these to a knowledge of himself, that I wish to relate to you in the following chapters. IN a snug corner of a meager slave-cabin, on a low cot, lies a little babe asleep.
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