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Title: The Unionist's daughter : a tale of the rebellion in Tennessee ; (and,) Maum Guinea and her plantation "children," or, Holiday-week on a Louisiana estate : a slave romance
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885
Subjects: Unionists (United States Civil War) Plantation life Slavery African Americans African Americans
Publisher: New York (141 William Street) : Beadle and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e to let him have a part of what he wants. If wedont hear from the fugitives by to-morrow, Ive promised totry and accommodate him. Blast em ! dont I wish they allhad a sound whipping for their tricks ? Philip did not reply, his attention having been arrested bythe sight of a horseman trotting leisurely along the levelroad; it was so seldom travellers passed by, they alwaysexcited more or less remark. This one, as he reached theavenue diverging from the road into the planters privategrounds, turned his horses head towards the mansion, muchto the excitement and arousal of a dozen negro children in the quarters, and half as many men and women loungingabout the yards and offices. By the time he had reached the place of dismounting, hewas surrounded by a small throng of curious spectators, whohardly among them all could manage to take the bridle ofthe animal for him, but who seemed to consider their chefduty to consist in the display of an astonishing quantity ofglowing eyes and ivories, r
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■J^^^^tJ AN AllHIVAL. 191 Does Colonel Fairfax reside here ? Oh, yis, massa! Dis Colonel Fairfaxs, suah. Thats a Northerner, or I miss my guess, said Philip,aside to his father, as the stranger walked up to the porch. With the courtesy native to him, the planter stepped for-ward to greet the new-comer, inviting him in before inquiringname or business. He was sufficiently well-spoken and well-dressed to warrant the invitation to the library extended tohim, and which he accepted, with an apology for intrudingupon the time of the host. Nevertheless, although he apolo-gized for intruding, he did not immediately state what businessbrought him ; but showed himself an interested stranger to thecountry, inquiring with intelligent curiosity into the peculiari-ties of sugar-planting, climate, etc., of that part of Louisiana.The three were in the midst of an animated conversation,when they were summoned to dinner. An invitation to partake of that meal was accepted asfrankly as it was offered.

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