The American People in the Antebellum South

African American antebellum Anthony Benjamin Tappan better brother buried C. C. JONES called carrion crows cemeteries Charles child church coffins corpses daughter dead dear Mother death Diary from Dixie door Elsie Clews Parsons epidemic Epps eyes father feel field Frances Trollope Frederick Douglass girl ground Gullah hand head hear heard heart horse Howard Association ignorant John JONES My dear kind labor lady live look married Martha Ann master Maybank mistress morning mulatto murder negroes negur never nigger night North Carolina overseer persons plantation planters poor whites Poussaint reprinted by permission Ruth Savannah scene servants sister slaveholders slavery slaves social society Solomon Northup soon South tell thing tion told whip white folks wife Wilson Wolof woman women woods yellow fever young