Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States

ness of raising slaves for the market, were there, and slave-traders, who make a business of buying human beings in the slave-raising States and takin

her of the bystanders. This was young Linwood. True to his promise, he was there with a blank bank-

raves, and who had been treated with great kindness by that gentleman, during his life. Now they were to be separated, and form new relations an

idder. Husbands and wives were separated with a degree of indifference that is unknown in any other relation in

were brought out to the place of sale. The mother was first put upon the auction-block, and sold to a noted negro trader

g the crowd. There she stood, with a skin as fair as most white women, her features as beautifully regular as any of her sex of pure Anglo-Saxon blo

Miss Isabella was fit to deck the drawin

fancy-girl for any one! She enjoys good health

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round, and began in a rough manner to relate some anecdote connected wi

d talking, kept up a continual hum and confusion among the crowd, while the slave-girl stood with tearful eyes,

neer, "is pure. She has never been from under her mot

tioneer once more resorted to his jokes, and concluded by assuring the company

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benefits supposed to accrue from her having been sprinkled and immersed, together with a warranty of her devoted Christianity, for $300; her ability to make a good prayer for $200; and her chast

who had purchased Agnes and her daughter Marion, with several of the other slaves, took them to the county pris

d sister. The "Good-by" of the slave is unlike that of any other class in the community. It is indeed a farewell forever. With tears streaming dow