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" In traversing that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned,... "
How to Get a Farm, and where to Find One: Showing that Homesteads May be Had ... - Page 324
by Edmund Morris - 1864 - 345 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 74

American periodicals - 1862 - 656 pages
...farmhouses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tcnantless, deserted, and dilapidated ; he will observe fields,...find " one only master grasps the whole domain " that enee furnished happy homes for a dozen families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where, fifty years...
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DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress ..., Volume 2

Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...slaves, or tcnantless, deserted, and dilapidated ; he will observe fields, once fertile, now unfcnced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers,...thrifty villages, and will find "one only master grasps tho whole domain" that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in...
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The North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and ...

Henry Chase - United States - 1856 - 152 pages
...that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted,...one only master grasps the whole domain ' that once fornished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a county in its infancy, where fifty years...
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The North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and ...

Henry Chase - United States - 1856 - 150 pages
...that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted,...see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifiy villages ; and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain ' that once furnished happy...
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The North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and ...

Henry Chase - United States - 1856 - 148 pages
...that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted,...now unfenced, abandoned, and covered with those evil harbingers—fox-tail and broom-sedge; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy

Frederick Law Olmsted - History - 1856 - 760 pages
...farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantlesi, deserted, and dilapidated ; he will observe fields,...evil harbingers — fox-tail and broom-sedge ; he Kill see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages ; and will fmd ' one only...
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy, Volume 1

Frederick Law Olmsted - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 756 pages
...traversing that county one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted,...fields, once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned, and co«ered with those evil harbingers— fox-tail and broom-sedge ; he will see the moss growing on the...
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...that county, one will discover numerous farm-houses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted...will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls oftmce thrifty villages, and will find ' one only master grasps the whole domain,' that once furnished...
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The Progress of Slavery in the United States

George Melville Weston - Slavery - 1857 - 336 pages
...one will discover numerous farm-houses, ' once the abode of industrious and intelligent free' men, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted, '...covered with those ' evil harbingers, foxtail and broom sedge ; he will see ' the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once ' thrifty villages, and...
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American Slavery and Colour

William Chambers - History - 1857 - 302 pages
...traversing that county, one will discover numerous farmhouses, once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted,...observe fields once fertile, now unfenced, abandoned; he will see the moss growing on the mouldering walls of once thrifty villages, and will find "one only...
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