An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States |
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... coloured buttons , and light blue trowsers . We saw the targets used by the graduates in artillery , who practise on the river banks ; at least , it was so stated by a fellow - passenger , who either was , or pretended to be ...
... coloured buttons , and light blue trowsers . We saw the targets used by the graduates in artillery , who practise on the river banks ; at least , it was so stated by a fellow - passenger , who either was , or pretended to be ...
Page 47
... coloured selvedge forming a con- spicuous ornament . Like all the aborigines of America , they cling with tenacity to primeval habits and customs , resisting every attempt made by the white popu- lation , to make or persuade them to ...
... coloured selvedge forming a con- spicuous ornament . Like all the aborigines of America , they cling with tenacity to primeval habits and customs , resisting every attempt made by the white popu- lation , to make or persuade them to ...
Page 56
... coloured people keep eating - houses , for the ac- commodation of those of their own complexion , but the greater number are employed as stokers and steam - boat hands . A few of these men , des- pite the prejudice that exists ( and it ...
... coloured people keep eating - houses , for the ac- commodation of those of their own complexion , but the greater number are employed as stokers and steam - boat hands . A few of these men , des- pite the prejudice that exists ( and it ...
Page 58
... coloured man travelling on terms of equality , would be sure to excite suspicion . He had a small bundle of papers under his arm , and on my remarking he appeared intent on business , he stated they were his free papers , and that not ...
... coloured man travelling on terms of equality , would be sure to excite suspicion . He had a small bundle of papers under his arm , and on my remarking he appeared intent on business , he stated they were his free papers , and that not ...
Page 59
... coloured people . I afterwards ascertained that this was what is there derisively termed a " nig- ger boarding - house , " and that the keepers of superior hotels would not think of accommo- dating a coloured person even for a night ...
... coloured people . I afterwards ascertained that this was what is there derisively termed a " nig- ger boarding - house , " and that the keepers of superior hotels would not think of accommo- dating a coloured person even for a night ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...