Note 219 — Chapter IV · FUGITIVES AND THEIR FRIENDS.
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216 Still, Underground Railroad, 410.
217 Ibid., 444.
218 F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 49.
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"Gone, gone,—sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone,— Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, Where the noisome insect stings, Where the fever demon strews Poison with the falling dews, Where the sickly sunbeams glare Through the hot and misty air,— Gone, gone,—sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone From Virginia's hills and waters,— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! "There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their back with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them.... "Oh, when weary, sad, and slow From the fields at night they go, Faint with toil, and racked with pain, To their cheerless homes again,— There no brother's voice shall greet them There no father's welcome meet them."
220 Still, Underground Railroad, 443.
221 Ibid., 448.
222 Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, 293.
223 Still, Underground Railroad, 27.
224 F. L. Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom, 157.
225 F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 444.
226 W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.
227 Ball, Mammoth Pictorial Tour of United States, 54; F. L. Olmsted, Journey in the Back Country, 155.
228 W. I. Bowditch, Slavery and the Constitution; Macon (Ga.) Telegram, Nov. 27, 1838.
229 Liberator, April 12, 1839.
230 Wm. Parker, Freedman's Story, in Atlantic Monthly, February and March, 1866; Letter from Gerrit Smith, in Liberator, Dec. 28, 1838.
231 J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 93.
232 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 196.
233 Appendix D, No. 41; Antislavery Almanac, 74.
234 J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 83.
235 Appendix D, No. 41.
236 Smedley, The Underground Railroad, 26.
237 Lalor's Cyclopædia, I. 5; Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II. 58, 59.
238 Clarke, Antislavery Days, 81.
239 Smedley, The Underground Railroad, 35.
240 Ibid., 64, 138.
241 Ibid., 568-570.
242 Ibid., 172.
243 Ibid., 34.
244 Ibid., 146.
245 Smedley, Underground Railroad, 58.
246 Harriet, the Moses of her People.
247 Clarke, Antislavery Days, 81.
248 Liberator, March 2, 1860.
249 Pamphlet proposing a Defensive League of Freedom, 6.
250 Smedley, Underground Railroad, 241.
251 Ibid., 355.
252 Douglass, My Bondage and Freedom, 323.
253 J. F. Clarke, Antislavery Days, 83.
254 Lalor's Cyclopædia, I. 5; Congressional Globe, 36 Cong. 1 Sess., Appendix, 250.
255 Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, II. 58, 59.