The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-16
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From Haymond.s History OF IA rrison4 County

/ From Haymond's Histo-
In August. 1913, a Dutch skip
sailed up the James river and offered
for sale to the planters twenty AZ
r.c2n negroes as sia.es.
There was no indentures Of any
Limitation of service. The negroes
were caprives and We're sold bysthe1-
captors TO repay themselves for their
trouble ard expense There seemd
TO have sbeen no conscientious scru-
pies as TO deprivias q human being OF
mis- liberty: and no difference OF optn-
ion as to the right to do So
The negroes we're perhaps regard
ed the same as bound servants. with
the important exception. that the
seryitude was to last during their
lives.
The planters readily purchased
them TO cultivate tobacco and from
this small nucleus widened year by
year, the great African shadow, OUT
the dire calamity OF war, bringing
in ITS train suffering. woe and desola-
tor.
slaves were not as numerous in
the western counties of the state as
as the eastern ones. the conditions
being different and the system being
very expensive
Harrison county never contained a
any one time more than $50. that
being the number given by the cen
sus of 1860. They were mostly em-.
ployed in domestic service. driving
teams and ordinary labor
First Born in County.
I:acle Frank SehoE. belonging to
Daniel Dawson, is said to have been
the first slave child born in Harrison.
county He died along in the seven
ties.
They would sometimes escape IN
TO Ohio and Pennsylvania where they
would be free.
of what is known as the fugitive
slave law" authorized the government
20 return fugitive slaves to their
formers owners This law created
great excitement throughout the free
states and was quite factor in
bringing on the Civil war
Charles, slave in the jackson
family, one Saturday night. took one
OF mis- masters horses and rode to
was in Ohio. His residence was dis
covered and he was brought back IN
der the fugitive slave law, and sold
South just before the war.
Gangs of slaves would occasional
iy pass through the county hanSs
cufed to a rope With man on horse
back holding one end OF It on She3r
way to the South by Parkersburg and
the Ohio river 90 be sold to sugar
and cotton planters
.sSouI Drivers.
These merchants in human beings
who made business OF buying up
negroes and taking them South were
called Soul Drivers. Their cali
ing was considered cruel and in
human one, and they did not stand
well IN LSe estimation OF the people
Many years before The Clril war.
the question OF abolishfng slavery
was .asitatsd and persons who We're
in favor OF this were called Adolf
tionists." This movement was bit
terly opposed by the save holders
and created a strong sectional 1eei-
ing between the free and the slave
holding states
Occasionally upon the settlement
of estates, slaves, men. women ana
children. would be sold at auction IN
front OF the court house 10 the high
est bidder. 1t was sad sight as
families were separated never to meet
TIE slave code of Virginia was
severe and, tyranAical- II was i'm
lawful to teach slavesfo read or
write
4 justice of the peace had the -au-
thority TO take newspaper from
he Ula:ted States postofhce and burn
il. il in his opinion it contained anu
slavery sentiments Thus was de-
MED the right of free speech and free
o America 5 great editor. Horace
Greedy. editor of the New York Tr1o-
unewas indicted by the cireu1I-coust
OF Harrison county for circu1at.ns
his paper containi:>S; anti-slaverS sen: sen
timcnts. -.
sentence a slave TO death But nm.
alIv after nearly TWO centuries OF
slavery in. 1852. during the great
war. President Abraham Lincoln, by
his emancipation proclamation struck
the shack:es from the arms OF fonf
million Of slaves and babe them go
free. In 1855 upon the adoption OF
the thirteenth amendment 70 the
..constitution OF the United states
| slavery was abolished and all men
declared free and equal before the
! law. thus Fulfilling the prediction
| made by the celebrated editor. Hor-