Title
Plantation Life in the South - A Picture of Comfort
Subject
Slavery
Description
Article, based on an account printed in the Philadelphia Ledger, makes the case that, contrary to the "lies" told by Northerners, black slaves are actually well taken care of on the plantations of their Southern masters and that plantation life is even pleasant in some ways. Seems to justify slavery as a benign force in the South.
Abstract
Article based on an account from an Alabama man detailing the typical life of a slave in the South. Goes on to compare plantation conditions favorably to the situation of European/white laborers on that Continent.
Political briefs on the same page talk about the secession movement gaining steam in the South and actions by Lincoln regarding fugitive slaves.
The significance of this article in the Pioneer and Democrat is the ambivalence about race and slave that the newspaper both led and followed among Democrats in Washington Territory, in these months just following the presidential election of 1860.
Political briefs on the same page talk about the secession movement gaining steam in the South and actions by Lincoln regarding fugitive slaves.
The significance of this article in the Pioneer and Democrat is the ambivalence about race and slave that the newspaper both led and followed among Democrats in Washington Territory, in these months just following the presidential election of 1860.
Creator
unsigned
Source
Pioneer and Democrat
Publisher
Olympia: Edward Furste
Date Issued
1860-11-23
Medium
Web
Type
newspaper
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. 9, No. 1. col. F
Provenance
http://www.sos.wa.gov/
URL
http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/images/newspapers/SL_dir_olympiapiondemo/pdf/SL_dir_olympiapiondemo_11231860.pdf
Start Page
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End Page
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