The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-17

THE Girls owN STORY
"Two Of the girls knew got a chance
to go away to do houscwork in North Car
olina. They were both New York girls,
Maggie Sullivan and Kate Nc something;
/ have forgotten her name. They were to
be sent to North Carolina by an agent in
New York. do not know his name, as
was never at his office, and saw him but
once. lie promised the girls $40 a month
and board. They spoke to him about me,
and got me the chance to 60 with them.
We were to go by steamer and he met us
at the steamer and gave us our tickets.
When we got to North Carolina we were
sent about fifteen miles back Of Charlotte
to a plantation kept by Mr.. Hubbard.
Mr.. Hubbard did not own the plantation,
but was the oycrseer for the owner. | do
not know the owners name. There we're
about 100 acres on the place, and Hub
bard was greatly bothered to get field hands
When we got there he wanted to put us to
work in the field. | refused TO go. Said !,
'Do you expect to
MAKE \ SLAVE OF ME!
If you do, you are mistaken. was born
in free country. | came here to do house
work, and | won't go into the field When
Hubbard found | wouldn't go into the field.
he put me at work IN the house. The other
girls had to go INTO the held, and one OF
them lett within week, and the other two
stayed about three weeks, and then they
lett lhey couldn't stand the hard work
and the poor food. We had nothing to eat
but corn bread and bacon. Hubbard and
ms wlie had the same food, not because
they were too poor to have better but the
people down there don't know any better.
! | told nciphbOr's son that the meal we
hal was lit Tor only hogs and cows to eat,
anu ne ana not know any better than to tell
hubbard about IT,
soon aiterward ! was at the nelghDor
,;r|, o,ri n Ia soiI Wi ho'''o
and get something to eat although we
haven't got ANYTHING except hogs and cows
food lie said this to let Inc know that he
had heard what | said. So | said. well.
that's all it's fit for 4 don't calculate
said he. so rive nv workpeople any better
than | do to nv hogs and cows you
can't feed me that way very long. said |.
4 wasn't brought up on that kind of food"
"While | was there | heard Hubbard
talking with Mr.. Davidson. who owns the
adjoining plantation. He was a rich man
before the war. and owned a hundred and
Twenty-Five slaves. Davidson brarred that
thev
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working for them soon. ne has not sue
ceeded very wen yet IN TINS. lie mad
man and his wife ana SIX single men sent
TO MN by some agent IN New ork whlle
l was there me agent promised them
that they shouid nave Two story Drlck
n,d TO-, oai,;,, tho+ ,,om comI3 sno .hro,,"i
in all directions, with nothing but the bare
ground for a floor. The women used to
work in the field with the men, and she
could do more than any of them, but she
disliked the house. ] have heard her curse
Davidson frightfully for not having the two
story bri k house The eight only stayed
about two weeks.
IL didn't like my place at all, but l
thought would stay as ten dollars month
was pretty good wages. About the middle
of May | asked for some money, and Hub
bard said ''You must be Il fool if YOU ex-
meet to get any money before YOU have
worked out YOUR fare from New York.
was surprised. as | had understood they
were to pay my fare there and back. When
inquired further found | had been work
ne for
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ana was expected 10 WORK out twenty-five
doiiars-twenty Tor my iare, ana nVe Tor
the agent Zee thought the pest thlng
E could DO was TO 90 10 my friends so
put on my bonnet ana sA"Wi ana walked
+ away, saying no'hing 10 anyDooy' | knew
nothing OF the roads but l knew that II ioi,
lowed the railroad couldn't go wrong
had no money, but the people along th'
t line were very KIND to me almost every
, where anu gave inc Ioou' anu every higii
: slept in some house by the way. WASH
out doors after dark all the way nome:
c Il came along the Danville and Ken
f mona raiiroad' ana was ABOUT TWO week
, walking.
: A HUNDRED AND sEvryrY-TnREE MILES
.sNv foot sweIlod good do,l and His
= terod 50 badlv that II hurt mo owrnily +,
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