An Inside View of Slavery Or a Tour Among the Planters
An Inside View of Slavery Or a Tour Among the Planters
Charles Grandison Parsons
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The ears had not been cut off previous to baking, and they were so very long, and stood up so straight, and wore a mark so singular, that 1 was probably eyeing it too sharply to seem respectful, when the old gentleman remarked, facetiously, " You see I am an honest man, sir, for that is my own mark in the pig s ear. 7 The Governor, like most of the large slaveholders, had been unfortunate in his sons. He owned, as I had been informed, about a thousand slaves, on different plantations. He had a ...large number on a plantation twenty miles below, which I had visited. His brother, Colonel Troup, was, as I was told, the overseer on this plantation for several years. He led a dissipated life, 116 INSIDE VIEW OF SLAVERY. and found an early grave. I was told that he confessed to a minister, a few days prior to his death, that he had terrible remorse of conscience in the reflection that many of his own children would be left as his brother s slaves. Governor Troup s eldest son succeeded his brother as the manager of the lower plantation, where he lived a few years in dissipation, and died from its effects.
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