1 "I was sold to the South when he was a boy," said she.
2 "I heard him speak of a sister Emily, that was sold South," said George.
3 If they are not common at the South, it is because they are not common in the world.
4 Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer.
5 South as well as north, there are women who have an extraordinary talent for command, and tact in educating.
6 The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South.
7 In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong.
8 Northern men, northern mothers, northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves.
9 The people of the free states have defended, encouraged, and participated; and are more guilty for it, before God, than the South, in that they have not the apology of education or custom.
10 Add to this all the terrors with which ignorance invests the unknown, and add to this, again, that selling to the south is set before the negro from childhood as the last severity of punishment.
11 It was built in a manner common at the South; a wide verandah of two stories running round every part of the house, into which every outer door opened, the lower tier being supported by brick pillars.
12 The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women.
13 The whole object of the training to which the negro is put, from the time he is sold in the northern market till he arrives south, is systematically directed towards making him callous, unthinking, and brutal.
14 He returned south to make arrangements for their marriage, when, most unexpectedly, his letters were returned to him by mail, with a short note from her guardian, stating to him that ere this reached him the lady would be the wife of another.