The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, And the Future of the African Race in the ...
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, And the Future of the African Race in the ...
Robert Dale Owen
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She had been hiring herself for more than fifteen years. She had two children, one thirteen, the other seventeen, both of whom worked in a tobacco- factory. Their regular wages were two dollars a week each; sometimes they did extra work, earning more. She hired their time also. For herself and these two children she paid her owner five dollars a week, — a dol- lar a week for herself, and two dollars a week for each of the children. She had brought up these children without any aid whatever from... her master, feeding B maii did not like to be seen in that position; but five or six years ago it became quite eommon. There was no effort to conceal the thing. I recol- lect weU that thirty years ago I knew a man who was a physician in this eity, to be tried by his church for the offence (committed as administrator of an estate) of unnecessarily separating, by sale, a slave from his wife." TeHimony taken by the Committion in Kentucky, pp. 38, 39. * «No person shall hire to any slave his time; nor shall any person owning the legal or equitable title of any slave, absolutely or for a term of time, his agent or attorney, or other person having the control of a slave, wilfully permit or suffer such slave, — **l.
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