New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-13
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f. preserved. recalls this ancient regulation:
Take him to the gully! Take him to the
Baat brnsee back the frock and the
20 inassa. massa, Mc no dcadee yet.
.Tanr aim to the guhy. 1ahe MN 10 the
Garry him along"
ro.y inns syug came into existence is
the related 20 \ Joanna! OF hy.I'ell1yS
,u.u.- ,ur Negroes IN the West lh1'es.
uy Matthew Gr,gOly Lewis l'oH"oi'
1850:
The soma alludcs 70 a transaction when
tOOA pace about my years a7o on az.
estate called spring Garden, TIE owner
OF which rs quoted as the cTue.lesl pro.
pri.tor that ever disgracrd Jamaica. IL
was his constant practice, whenever II
SCR negro was pronounced iu.urdoIt' 10
ula,r the poor wretch 10 ue carried 10 a
solitary vale upon his estate, gaiied thS
Gully. where he was thrown down ana
abandoned Co his iatr-wnioh tate was
generally 20 be- half devouied py ths
John crows before death had put an emo
tp his suficrugs. By TINS proceeding the
; avariCiOUs owner avoided the cAp'nHe OF
maintaining the slave during NJ last W.
ness, and In order that he might be AS
little loser as possible he Always en-
O.ued the negro bearers Of the Gyms man
10 strip him naked before leaving tne
Gully. and not % forget 10 hring BACK ms
frock and the board on which hc hdd
/ been carried down.
one Door creature. while In the act ~
being removed. screamed out most pit
. cousiy that be- was not dead yet, ana I'M
ri,rod not 20 be left 10 perish in tho
I Gully in a manner 50 horrible. Ills cries
had mo- effect guuu his master. nut op'I
. at,d $50 fprUilly ON On" less marble hearts
IL lbs fellow slaves that iU the night
some ~ them removed him back % the
negro village privately ana nuIstd MN
there with 80 much care that De rscuN-
. cred and left the estate unqurstioncd and
! undiscovered tuiuckily. one day IN"
mdstor WAS passing through KINGSTON.
l when. on turning the corner Of street
suddenly. ho found himself face 10 face
/ with thu negro whom he had supposed
/ Ions ago 10 have been picked 90 the bones
| .U tine Gully BE Immediately seized him,
claimed him as his slave and ordered his
attendants 90 convey him to bis house.
. lut the fellow .. .|E attracted "A crowd
around them hciu b." could be dragged
. away To related nIs melancholy story
ard tho singular manner On which he had
. recovered h.s N'n and liberty. and the
public indignation Was 80 forcihly excited
UE the SHOCKING tale that Mr.. r. was
. glal 90 sass" himself from being torn 90
pieces hy e pr '.ipItat" retreat from King
/ s'uu and never NcUfUrel 90 advance his
/ claim 20 tn" negro second time.
! BIRTH OF THE FoLKSoNGS.
| And ON" story lived In the song which
I tho narrator heard hair century later.
I Imagine tho dramatic pathos % the words
paired with Tath0s ~ the tune which
V,ll.d up uiih them when the singers
t repeated tho harsh uttorances - th"
/ master and the p,eadinEs 81 the wretch'd
slave o. ls out 4 experiences Ike these
. that folksonEs are made. There we're %
~ true few cases 81 such moustrous
cruelty IN any u the sections IN which
slavery noIr.shed In America, though d,
/ fou 90 ms Dot aftcen years after slavery
had been abolished 10 report the trstl-
mony 100 law cas-" 81 an old black
woman who was seeking 20 recover dam
ages from former Sheriff ~ Keuton
/ county. Ky. for having abducted her.
+ when fr'" woman living Boz cincinnati
and selling her into slavery \ slay"
sh" remained until freed by Prcsid,n,
L.uro'ns proclamation. and In measure
81 damages she told on the witness stand
~ seeing young black woman on a
plantation in Mississippi stripped naked,
tied by feet and hands nat upon The
ground and So inhumanly noggcd that
u she died iu a isR hours That story also
mi-ht well have been pcrpctuatcd In a
fplksous There was sunshine as we'll a
gloom Boz the NE OF the black slaves IN
the Southern colonies and states. and so
"a" have songs which are gay as We'll IS
grave. but as rule tho finest songs are
the fruits 81 suffering undergone and th1
hope OF the dclivcranre from bondage
which was To come with translation 10