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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
re an educated gentleman, would be a secret skeptic in religion but an orthodox professor; he would naturally prefer the practice of the law as a profession; but if he took to politics he would be as non-committal as our democratic aspirants to the presidential chair, or even, perhaps, as the editor of a northern national religious paper on the crime of slavery, and its numerous brood of lesser sins. How do you do? I began. He instantly took off his hat. All colored persons away down South, excepting in large cities, do so when addressed by a white man. He was very well! I was very glad to hear it — and how did his folks do? I forget how he answered — you're not particular I hope? I talked irrelevantly for a time, for I knew it would be useless to throw away my frankness on him. So I put him through a course of Socratic questions. He admitted dat freedom am a great blessina; dat de collud population in general — in fact, nine-tenths of those whom he knew — would