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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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and towering waves,and then finding myself suddenly high and dry,none the worse for the experience. Jose, then, carried freight and passengers onhis raft, when there were any to carry; whenthere were none, he did such odd jobs of porter-age as he could pick up along the beach, orplaited mats, or lounged and smoked with hiscomrades. He had two men to help him onthe raft, but so far as clothes and manners low, broad-brimmed leather hats; and sandalsinstead of shoes. When vessels were loading or unloading,Jose and his men had plenty to do. Five orsix times a month a steamer touched at Forta-leza, on its way to or from Rio de Janeiro. Thenthe raftsmen were always busy. Often therewere rich passengers who paid well for them-selves and their baggage. Then, there were thefreight and mails, and almost always a load ofnegroes going to the slave-markets of Rio deJaneiro and Sao Paulo. Jose and his friendspitied the negroes, because they had heard thatslaves were barbarously treated on the great
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1 wont take the negroes at all, SAID JOSE. 1 wont ever carry ANOTHER SLAVE ON MY RAFT.1 (SEE PAGE 251.) went, you could not have distinguished captain plantations about Rio. In Ceara, on the con-from men. All were dressed in the Ceara trary, most of the masters were very kind, andpeasant fashion: ragged white cotton trousers the negroes were as happy as men and womenand shirt, the latter hanging loosely about the can be without freedom. But even the kind-waist, outside the trousers, in blouse fashion; est masters might be poor or in debt, and so be 250 HOW A LITTLE DEED GREW. (Jan. forced to sell their slaves ; then they were almostalways bought by slave-dealers, who carriedthem off to the southern plantations. Thedealers regarded the negroes precisely as theywould horses or pigs, and, if they got goodmoney for them, they were utterly indifferent asto their fate. They carried them to Rio becauseslaves brought better prices and sold morereadily on the plantations than they did in Ceara

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