 | Joel Munsell - Albany (N.Y.) - 1850 - 330 pages
...masters, say that a great deal of that tranquillity and comfort, to call it by no higher name, which relation between master and Servant being better understood...was, (for I do not now speak of the virtues of their maslprs,) that each family had fe\y of them, and that there were no field negroes. They would remind... | |
 | George Rogers Howell, Jonathan Tenney - Albany (N.Y.) - 1886 - 398 pages
...: "In the society I am describing, even the dark aspect of slavery was softened into a smile. And I must, in justice to the best possible masters, say...as the domestics of the Albanians. One reason was that each family had few of them, and that there were no field negroes. They would remind one of Abraham's... | |
 | Edward Augustus Collier - Kinderhook (N.Y.) - 1914 - 684 pages
...wrote: In the society I am describing, even the dark aspect of slavery was softened into a smile. . . . Let me not be detested as an advocate for slavery, when I say, that I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians. . . . They would remind... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1916 - 772 pages
...smile. And I must, in justice to the best possible masters, say, that a great deal of that tranquility and comfort, to call it by no higher name, which distinguished...the virtues of their masters,) that each family had a few of them, and that there were no field negroes. They would remind one of Abraham's servants, who... | |
 | Terence Whalen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 572 pages
...Messenger, Grant distances herself from the proslavery position: "Let me not be detested as an advocate of slavery, when I say that I think I have never seen...happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians" (511). Less important than the remarks themselves, however, is the regional identification of the speaker.... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 311 pages
...Messenger, Grant distances herself from the proslavery position: "Let me not be detested as an advocate of slavery, when I say that I think I have never seen...happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians" (CW, 5:234). Less important than the remarks themselves, however, is the regional identification of... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...from the prosiavery position: "Let me not be detested as an advocate ot slavery, when I say that 1 think I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians" (CW, 5:234). Less important than the remarks themselves, however, is the regional identification of... | |
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Let me not be detested as an advocate for slavery when I say that I think I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians. 