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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
but I knows dat nothina could be worse. I's been knocked about five or six years now very bad; but I won't stand it much longer; I'll run away the very firs' chance I gets. Massa, is a colored man safe in the State of New York? I replied that I believed that it now would be impossible, without a desperate and bloody contest between the municipal authorities and the people of New York, for a Southron to rethrust a slave as a brand into the burning, after he had once trod the soil of Manhattan Island. I thought that perhaps lie could lave done so as late as a year ago, but that he could not do it since the recent anti-slavery revival. (Abolitionism, at that time, had penetrated the theatres, and even the pulpits were belching forth anathemas against it.) He spoke of one John Bouldon, an intimate friend of his, who had been legally kidnapped from New York city after successfully effecting his escape from slavery. Dey brought him back, he said, but he looked brave and game.