. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ^ flakes from bursting pods, black men and 412 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY women filled basket after basket, filling also the pockets of theirowners with their unpaid labor. Still farther south, the greatswampy plains, planted with rice and sugar-cane, swarmed withblack labor, furnished by the slave markets of Virginia. This is the South of 1850 hastily glanced at. Keep in mind itsthree classes. First, the slave-holder, sometimes rich, but often indebt an
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... ^ flakes from bursting pods, black men and 412 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY women filled basket after basket, filling also the pockets of theirowners with their unpaid labor. Still farther south, the greatswampy plains, planted with rice and sugar-cane, swarmed withblack labor, furnished by the slave markets of Virginia. This is the South of 1850 hastily glanced at. Keep in mind itsthree classes. First, the slave-holder, sometimes rich, but often indebt and embarrassed by improvident living and bad management;. Sugar-cane. autocratic, and overbearing with inferiors ; courteous and generouswith his equals; very swift to quarrel, and apt to believe a differ-ence of opinion between gentlemen best settled by the duel; rash,haughty, gallant to ladies, ready to empty his purse for his friend;— such was the type of a Southern gentleman of the time. If Iadd, that he hated all Yankees — as he called every one born inthe North, especially those of New England, — you would have astill more complete idea of the man. Next, the unpaid, black laborers ; often devoted to their masters,on whose lands they had been born; often also brooding over avague idea of freedom, of which they had heard as something uni-versal in the far oflf North ; a people with much that was loyal,patient, and poetical in their natures, mixed with much ignoranceand native stupidity. Last, and lowest of all, the ignorant, idle, demoralized poorwhites. These classes were the elements which made the slaveStates. A NEW IAIITY. 413
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