Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
ENGLISH OPINION ON THE AMERICAN WAR
TWO PICTURES
THE FREEDMAN'S STORY
IN TWO PARTS
PART I
EARLY PLANTATION LIFE
THE ORIGIN OF THE GYPSIES
PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS
II
COURT-CARDS
A LANDSCAPE PAINTER
RIVIERA DI PONENTE
DOCTOR JOHNS
XLVI
XLVII
XLVIII
THE CHIMNEY-CORNER FOR 1866
II
THE TRANSITION
GRIFFITH GAUNT; OR, JEALOUSY
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
THREE MONTHS AMONG THE RECONSTRUCTIONISTS
I
II
III
IV
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES
RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS
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The manuscript of the following pages has been handed to me with the request that I would revise it for publication, or weave its facts into a story which should show the fitness of the Southern black for the exercise of the right of suffrage.
It is written in a fair, legible hand; its words are correctly spelled; its facts are clearly stated, and—in most instances—its sentences are properly constructed. Therefore it needs no revision. On reading it over carefully, I also discover that it is in itself a stronger argument for the manhood of the negro than any which could be adduced by one not himself a freedman; for it is the argument of facts, and facts are the most powerful logic. Therefore, if I were to imbed these facts in the mud of fiction, I should simply oblige the reader to dredge for the oyster, which in this narrative he has without the trouble of dredging, fresh and juicy as it came from the hand of Nature,—or rather, from the hand of one of Nature's noblemen,—and who, until he was thirty years of age, had never put two letters together.
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Alex Brown's mother followed next. After the poor woman was gone, I said to Alex,—
"Now that your mother has been sold, it is time that you and I studied out a plan to run away and be free."
