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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Wayland, January 21, 1862.
You will make me write to you, you keep doing so many things that delight me!
I was moved to write you my thanks for The two Watchers; but I was busy working for the contrabands at Fortress Monroe, and so I kept the thanks warm in my heart, without giving them an airing.
But that Negro Boat Song at Port Royal!
How I have chuckled over it and sighed over it!
I keep repeating it morning, noon, and night; and, I believe, with almost as much satisfaction as the slaves themselves would do. It is a complete embodiment of African humor, and expressed as they would express it, if they were learned in the mysteries of rhyme and rhythm.
I have only one criticism on the negro dialect.
They would not say, He 'leaba de land.
They would say, He leff de land.
At least, so speak all the slaves I have talked with, or whose talk I have seen reported.
What a glorious, blessed gift is this gift of song, with which you are so lavishly endowed!
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