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THE FUGITIVE BLACKSMITH - HIS OWN WORDS: "We had an overseer, named Blackstone; he was an extremely cruel man to the working hands. He always carried a long hickory whip, a kind of pole. He kept three or four of these in order, that he might not at any time be without one..... "I once found one of these hickories lying in the yard, and supposing that he had thrown it away, I picked it up, and boy-like, was using it for a horse; he came along from the field, and seeing me with it, fell upon me with the one he then had in his hand, and flogged me most cruelly. From that, I lived in constant dread of that man; and he would show how much he delighted in cruelty by chasing me from my play with threats and imprecations. I have lain for hours in a wood, or behind a fence, to hide from his eye..... "I saw that a crisis was at hand; I had no weapons of any kind, not even a pocket-knife; but I asked myself, shall I surrender without a struggle. The instinctive answer was "No." What will you do? continue to walk; if he runs after you, run; get him as far from the house as you can, then turn suddenly and smite him on the knee with a stone; that will render him, at least, unable to pursue you. This was a desperate scheme, but I could think of no other, and my habits as a blacksmith had given my eye and hand such mechanical skill, that I felt quite sure that if I could only get a stone in my hand, and have time to wield it, I should not miss his knee-pan. He began to breathe short. He was evidently vexed because I did not halt, and I felt more and more provoked at the idea of being thus pursued by a man to whom I had not done the least injury. I had just began to glance my eye about for a stone to grasp, when he made a tiger-like leap at me. " REAL HISTORY is that which was written at the time, but the people who lived it. The lives of slaves can only be imagined by those of us who were fortunate enough to be born in the 20th century -- and only the people who experienced slavery are qualified to tell the story. We are fortunate to have the narratives of a scarce few individuals who lived both as slaves and as freepersons; this is one of those rare pieces of history.
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The Fugitive Blacksmith is a firsthand account of a former slave from Maryland who told the story of the worst cruelty man has ever witnessed: We had an overseer, named Blackstone; he was an extremely cruel man to the working hands. He always carried a long hickory whip, a kind of pole. He kept three or four of these in order, that he might not at any time be without one… "I was subjected to this cruelty to what seemed like eternity...
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- ÉditeurBook Jungle
- Date d'édition2009
- ISBN 10 1438511884
- ISBN 13 9781438511887
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages88
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