The House of Bondage: Or, Charlotte Brooks And Other Slaves, Original And ...
The House of Bondage: Or, Charlotte Brooks And Other Slaves, Original And ...
Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, Willard Francis Mallalieu
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I tell you, madam, Samson could talk all day to you about what he has seen in that stock- ade at Andersonville, Georgia. He told me thousands of Yankees were walled up in the stockade made of pine-trees, and they had no shed over them. The hot sun used to almost 1 Digitized by Google 84 The House of Bondage, parch them. The rain would pour down on them, and they were shut up like cows in a pasture." " I've said already, Uncle John, IVe i^d of the horrors of Andersonville ; but how ^inge that th...ese things should be in the State of Georgia, where religion abounds, and where the Gospel was preached Sunday after Sunday, within hearing, perhaps, of the stockade, and that thousands of human souls should receive such brutal treatment ! " They were reduced to a level with the brutes, the barren earth for a floor and the sky their only covering overhead! Samson said the white women used to visit the stock- ade. They had a platform made so they could walk out and look over the stockade down on the prisoners; and one time a white woman said, when she was looking over at them, " I wish God would fain Are and brimstone down on your heads." Samson said he heard her say it to the Yankees.
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