The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-11-24
A Slave Pen in MassachusettsA Slave
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A correspondent, writing 20 t New
York Journal IF Commerce from Boston,
says:
Not long siucc, sometime the last winter
| believe, an individual, whose travels had
extended MS far as Charleston, S nth Caro-.
lima, discovered in that city an auctioncer'S
old block, from which negroes were sold.
lie procured it, whether by purchase or
in the way some Massachusetts chaplains
arc charged With coming into possession
ct Libraries aud planes. which they send
home to their families, is not stated, aud
amazed at his discovery an possession
himself, be resolved to amaze others
Meetings we're announced to he held in
The great public places in Boston, distn-
gnIshed scholars and eloquent speakers
were procured, aud the mass rushed to get
IA sight IF the horrible auction block
lhttc did these speakers, aud exhibitors,
and crowds imagine that the labor of trav.
cling all the long way to Charleston,
South Carolina, might have been saved in
the search OF some relic of harbarily, BY
simply passing through Charleston, Mas
sachusctts, to its northern limits that al
most within sight Of Faneuil Hill, and
fairly in sight from Bunker Hill monu-
nent, if not the slave block at lea It the
slaVepen still exists Lnto what a Qua.
ker meeting could these excited and noisy
meetings have been turned, had some one
suddeoly held up piece Of the old slave
pen, built on Massachusetts soil, and still
standing eutire, monument Of Massa-
chusetts and New England guilt, and
presenting in itself the strongest motive
to modesty and humiliation iu them, and
to charity and forgiveness to others guilty
OF the same sin, when they lament over it
and forsake it
An irresistible curiosity impelled me to
search out and see with my own eyes this
strange relic, and humiialng as strange,
and setting off without guide, found it
in the outskirts of large, central village.
There stands an ancient, spacious and
we'll preserved house, set far back from
the street, in the centre of half dozen
acres of land, with, inside graveled walks
leading to it, and elegant trees embower-
ing 1t and scattered around the grounds, a
udsome garden and a summerhouse, the
works of the first owner, lying back of
1t, while In the rear of the almost princely
mansion, and near one corner, stands a
house for the domestics of the successive
owners who were gentlemen of wealth
and position.
The slave per, which was just back of
the house of the domestics, has been uni
ted with it, and both now make one build
ing, while the slave-pen remained unin-
paired and entire. Colonel Isaac Royal
was the owner of this estate, with which
an extensive farm was once connected
His father came from the island of Anti.
qua, where the son was born, who with
bis father emigrated to this country in
l73o, and settled in Medford, where the
father died, who was also a Colonel, and
rich planter and shareholder in his own
island, aud Tory when he came here
The son was simply a coward, and upon
the outbreak of the Revolution fed to
Halifax, and thence to Euallnd, where he
died in 1871. lie was slavetrader on
the coast of Africa and in the South till the
time be fled the country. In 177G no
wrote from Halifax to his agent in Med
ford as follows
"Please sell the following negroes Ste.
phen and George; each cost EGO ster.
ling, and I would take ESQ apiece for
them. Hagar cost g35 sterling g, but
will take EDO for her I gave for Mira
935 but will take e25. If Mr.. BENJAMIN
Hale will give 500 for her, which he Of
fered, be may have her, it being good
place. AS to Betsey and her daughter
Nancy, the former may tarry, or take her
freedom, as she may choose, and Nancy
you may put out to any good family by
the year."
Colonel Royal did not forget the country
he had made his home, even after he had
deserted it, and found another in England.
By his will he be9ueathed 1000 acres of
land to lay foundation for professor
ship of law in Harvard University, while
the rest of his estate was confscated.-
The proceeds Of the land were left to ac.
cumulate till they were sufficient for the
support of professor, The professorship
bears bis own name, every annual cata-
logue prcclaiming to the world that the
greatest anti,slavcry State in the Union
educates at this very day her sops by the
endowment Of STAKEHOLDER and slave ira
der, and the proceeds of the sale of inno-
cent men, women and children stolen nm
the asst of Africa, ponned in Medford,
aud sold again in Virginia and South
Carolina So strangely are things con-
neoted, and SO little has even Massachus-
etts and New Eng gland whereof to glory!
IMPORTANT DECISION AT RICHMOND
On Saturday last, in the court of con-
ciliatiou at Richmond, Va, in the case of
Stclman, Hinrichs & Co., of Baltimore,
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