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Her enmity did not stop at this abominable action, but she likewise changed the slave into a cow, and gave her also to my farmer. At my return, I enquired for the mother and child. "Your slave," said she, "is dead; and as for your son, I know not what is become of him, I have not seen him this two months."
Men who had been brought up in the slave States believed that slavery was a good thing good for the country, good for the slave-owner, and even good for the slave. They could not understand how anybody should think differently from them.
Wilson, Rise and Fall of Slave Power, iii. 76. Stephens declared the "corner-stone" of the new government to be "the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery ... is his natural and normal condition;" and said that it was the first government "in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
If you have Lived, as you state forty years in a Slave holding State, you know that, that class of its population, are not the most, miserable, degraded, or unhappy, either in their feelings or habits, You know they are generally governd, and provided for by men of information and understanding sufficient to guard them against the most, odious vices, and hibets of the country, from which, you know the slaves are in a far greater degree, exempt than, are other portions of the population.
She went down the steps and then up the others to the house of the Vestals, and entered in without looking back. I followed her. The door was open, and there was no one to stop me." "That is very improbable," observed Guido. "There must have always been a slave at the door."
A squad of soldiers had marched through the streets, halting at corners and beating a drum "beating the protocol," as it was termed and reading the royal edict. After twelve years all slaves were to go free; their owners were to be paid for them; and meantime every infant of a slave was to be free at birth.
Even Christian doctrine taught her that the slave must obey his master; but she could not feel like a slave, and if indeed she were one her owner might destroy and kill her body, but not her soul. The law, however, was on the side of Karnis, and it allowed him to pursue her and cast her into prison.
This child was a domestic slave in the family of a well-to-do merchant in Chinatown, but so cruelly was the child overworked and abused that the matter was finally reported to the Mission, and little Ngun Fah rescued. When found at the home of her master, she was in a most pitiable condition.
Her life was a supreme act of worship a devotion to husband, children, friends, the poor, the slave that made her a high-priestess of humanity. The thing that struck Phil with terrific force was that this beautiful delicate woman was the slave of slaves. As a rule, they died young.
Madame has but to speak!" said the doctor, bowing politely. "Why should I speak when every word I utter you believe, or affect to believe, to be the ravings of a maniac? I will speak no more," said the lady, turning away her superb dark eyes and looking out of the window. "Ah, madame will not so punish her friend, her servant, her slave!"
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