A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present, Հատոր 2Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918 |
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A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the ..., Հատոր 2 Arthur Wallace Calhoun Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1918 |
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the ..., Հատոր 2 Arthur Wallace Calhoun Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1918 |
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the ..., Հատոր 2 Arthur Wallace Calhoun Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1918 |
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Էջ 285 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Էջ 115 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Էջ 87 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Էջ 119 - He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
Էջ 115 - I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Էջ 285 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Էջ 308 - Neither is it to be found only in the lower order of the white population. It pervades the entire society. Its followers are to be found among all ranks, occupations and professions. The white mothers and daughters of the South have suffered under it for years — have seen their dearest affections trampled upon — their hopes of domestic happiness destroyed, and their future lives embittered, even to agony, by those who should be all in all to them, as husbands, sons, and brothers. I cannot use...
Էջ 74 - I am sensible that it tends to invigorate the judgment at the expense of the imagination, and to make cold and virtuous women instead of affectionate wives and agreeable companions to man. Society may be more tranquil and better regulated, but domestic life has often fewer charms.
Էջ 288 - North," said another southern merchant, on his annual visit to New York, " I was informed that each of his family-servants were suffering from , and I ascertained that each of my brother's children, girls and boys, had been informed of it and knew how and from whom it had been acquired. The negroes being their familiar companions, I tried to get my brother to send them North with me to school. I told him he might as well have them educated in a brothel at once, as in the way they were growing up.
Էջ 251 - a slave has never maintained an action against the violator of his bed. A slave is not admonished for incontinence, or punished for fornication or adultery; never prosecuted for bigamy, or petty treason ; for killing a husband, being a slave, any more than admitted to an appeal for murder.