"Do
dear tell me," said she, "what they are doing to those people. Who is
whipping them? What have they done?" The black woman stopped, and looked
round without taking her hands from her tub, and then said, as she went
on rinsing, "Lorfull help you, Missis, dem's de young uns scaring de
birds out of de grain."
What bliss there was to her in that moment of relief! Six or eight
little negroes were sauntering about at their morning work, each having
a rude whip, with tape for a snapper, interrupting the hungry birds at
their breakfast.
I expected to see a wretched, down-trodden, alms-house looking set of
creatures; for the word _slave_, and all the changes which are rung on
that word, made me think only of people who are convicts, such as you
see in the state-prison yard at Charlestown, Mass. I never expected that
they would look me in the face, but would skulk by me as a spy or enemy.
A Christian heart is overjoyed to find what religion and society have
done for these colored people. If one who had never heard of "slavery"
should be set down here, the Northern idea of "bondage" would not soon
occur to him.
In the Presbytery which includes Charleston, S.
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