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Title: The Sable Cloud
A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)

Author: Nehemiah Adams

Release Date: January 6, 2005 [EBook #14615]

Language: English

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THE SABLE CLOUD:

A SOUTHERN TALE,

WITH NORTHERN COMMENTS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"A SOUTH-SIDE VIEW OF SLAVERY."

"I did not err, there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night"

MILTON'S COMUS

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
MDCCCLXI

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H O HOUGHTON

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAPTER I.
DEATH AND BURIAL OF A SLAVE'S INFANT 1

CHAPTER II.
NORTHERN COMMENTS ON SOUTHERN LIFE 5

CHAPTER III.
MORBID NORTHERN CONSCIENCE 32

CHAPTER IV.
RESOLUTIONS FOR A CONVENTION 53

CHAPTER V.
THE GOOD NORTHERN LADY'S LETTER FROM THE SOUTH 59

CHAPTER VI.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 118

CHAPTER VII.
OWNERSHIP IN MAN.--THE OLD TESTAMENT SLAVERY 150

CHAPTER VIII.
THE TENURE 177

CHAPTER IX.
DISCUSSION IN PHILEMON'S CHURCH AT THE RETURN OF ONESIMUS 205

CHAPTER X.
THE FUTURE 239

CHAPTER I.

DEATH AND BURIAL OF A SLAVE'S INFANT.

"The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his
master."

A Southern gentleman, who was visiting in New York, sent me, with his
reply to my inquiries for the welfare of his family at home, the
following letter which he had just received from one of his married
daughters in the South.