A journey in the seaboard slave states : with remarks on their economy . the negro-cabins, which were the smallestI had seen—I thought not more than twelve feet square, in-teriorly. They stood in two rows, with a wide street betweenthem. They were built of logs, with no windows—^no openingat all, except the doorway, with a chimney of sticks and mud;with no trees about them, no porches, or shades, of any for the chimney—the purpose of which I should notreadily have guessed—if I had seen one of them in New England,I should have conjectured that it had been built for a powder-house, o
A journey in the seaboard slave states : with remarks on their economy . the negro-cabins, which were the smallestI had seen—I thought not more than twelve feet square, in-teriorly. They stood in two rows, with a wide street betweenthem. They were built of logs, with no windows—^no openingat all, except the doorway, with a chimney of sticks and mud;with no trees about them, no porches, or shades, of any for the chimney—the purpose of which I should notreadily have guessed—if I had seen one of them in New England,I should have conjectured that it had been built for a powder-house, or perhaps an ice-house—never for an animal to sleep in. We stopped, for some time, on this plantation, near wheresome thirty men and women were at work, repairing the women were in majority, and were engaged at exactly the SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, 387 same labor as the men; driving the carts, loading them withdirt, and dumping them upon the road; cutting down trees, anddrawing wood by hand, to lay across the miry places ; hoeing,and shoveling. ^^. They vrere dressed in coarse gray gowns, generally very muchburned, and very dirty; which, for greater convenience of work-ing in the mud, were reefed up with a cord drawn tightly aroundthe body, a little above the hips—the spare amount of skirtbagging out betvv-een this and the waist-proper. On their legswere loose leggins, or pieces of blanket or bagging wrappedabout, and lashed with thongs; and they wore very heavy of them had handkerchiefs, only, tied around their heads. 388 OUR SLAVE STATES. some wore mens caps, or old slouched hats, and several werebare-headed. The overseer rode about among them, on a horse, carrying inhis hand a raw-hide whip, constantly directing and encouragingthem; but, as my companion and I, both, several times noticed,as often as he visited one end of the line of operations, the handsat the other end would discontinue their labor, until he turnedto ride towards them again
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