The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-25
From Parsons ssinside View Of slavery
A White Woman for Sale.

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was with me at the little city OF NJ wheff'
he went 10 visit partner IN trace. ne
had no, been in a Slave State before, and
was bitterly opposed to emancipa.loh.-
Two merchants -slayehoiders--had peeh
in our company on the way TO thal cry.
Whenever slavery was talked OF, Mr. =.
unfortunately concurred with them.-i Inc
next morning after we arrived, we saw
handful in the bar-room, in which four ie-
male slaves were advertised for sale. Step
ming out into the street, we found those
s;ris sitting on the sidewalk. At the fur
Their end Of the row was beautiful girl,
apoaYeptly perfectly white, and neatly
dre,sed. The moment Mr.. G.. discovered
her he exclaimed, s.What do you think that
white girl 10 sitting there with those negroes
forr' ErtF -
III presume she is slave, sir" said /.
"That can't be-" replied C., "jrst look al
her! 5-s.e..sa55. 60.
WHY, I never saw a prettier girl in my
life." ' ~. ,,.,
Now Mr.. C. had heard that likely quad
roors are held as slaves and sold IN the
market: but he had never believed tiat a
vounr lady, SO entirely American, 30 eie-
rant In form and features, SO intellectual IN
srnearsnce. with pure blue eyes, and the
perfect red and white Caucasian complex
ION. was In the same degraded condition as
The frican girl. And his fine sensibilit'es
were greatly shocked at the ldea that q
white girl. 30 beautiful, was doomed 20 suen
disgrace. His heart was steeied against
avnpathy for the blacks, but 1t was un-
shielded on the side towards the white race
10 which his mother, wife and daughter oe'
-,onped. Hence he was unprepared TO be-
iieye il, when said to him, "She IS slave
sir" aH -,
There was the precise number, incla-
dino her advertised 10 the bill. sun IN
credulous. Mr.. C. stepped up to the droVer
and asked, els tina. white girl slave
sirm
That's not white girl; she is niger
sir" replied the drover.
Mr.. q. bit his lips with suppressed indig-
nation, passed, and then ejaculated' Us ~ ~
possble!'s E.sssass'iAs
'.Does she belong to you" said he to the
droyeY s8#aFt ez4lA .r.- g
ayes, sir" replied the drover.
. .What do YOU ask for. herr" inquired
MIC. @ IN,
III was offered eighteen hundred doilars
for her ,a.t nipht. want two thousand iof
her." e a., IA
"What do you ask for that onet" sad
Mr.. C. pointing to a hight qusdssoo q si'''hg
to the white girl $50,
,l,sa ~ will take fifteen hundred for her.
"Well how much for the black ones ~
this end Of the row.
II will take eight hundred apiece re-
piled the slave dealer.
"Why, can that white girl
"That isn't white girl; that's a m'9ssr
cir. 1 tell you," interrupted the drover con
semptuously. At the same time ne removes
WOODEN ca 10 from her head, which expose'
the IiOht brown hair, and added, "you SEE
her hair is waved" =,
b This i regarded as evidence that hisl
can blood 10 mingled with the white m
C.. had now become excited, ana no - :.
claimed -"Well, then, can that ua' :.
5nigper do more work than one OF your 0sac'
niSSers can. that you ask SO much more ~
herp' - 80 =, M,
.Oh no, replied the drover; and per
81 cs,vinv .,hat Mr.. c. did not compreheh'
the superior value OF female beauty
uhysicsl ability in o slave, he udoeu--
b 'But you know she is high prieteo 'a"'
girl" 80 .s-sIs If. $50, r an
.By Heayen!" vociferated MI. W "
too bad,'' and turned to me, with ciehc"e
hands raised town fds the heavens, nc auu
ed. II will never say another wora asa'"s
the abolitionists So long as Sod ie'' ~
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