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UNCLE ROBIN, IN HIS CABIN IN VIRGINIA, AND TOM WITHOUT ONE IN BOSTON.
BYJ. W. PAGE.
J. W. RANDOLPH, 121 MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA.
1853.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY J. W. PAGE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the Western District of Virginia.
CONTENTS.
- I. The Return Home. 7
- II. Inspections.—Contrast.—Tamperings. 21
- III. Working for Servants. 54
- IV. Sabbath School.—George's Return. 68
- V. Exquisite Sensitiveness. 99
- VI. California Society. 125
- VII. Death in a Cabin. 135
- VIII. The Weddings. 154
- IX. White Runaways.—Relentings. 174
- X. The Wedding Dinner. 204
- XI. Abrupt Leave-taking. 230
- XII. The Sale. 234
- XIII. A Trip to Boston. 240
- XIV. Cruel Mercies. 256
- XV. Return to Virginia. 265
- XVI. Successful Intercession. 283
- XVII. College Friendships better than Northern Humanity. 293
PREFACE.
THE highly exaggerated accounts of the cruelty of Southern masters towards their slaves, to be found in Northern publications, having done great injustice to the South, call imperiously for truthful statements of the consequences and incidents of the relation of master and slave as it now exists in the Southern States.
The design of the author of the following work, entitled, "Uncle Robin in his Cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston," is not only to disprove those accounts, but to show that the evils of slavery, so glowingly depicted in the Northern romances, as far as they do exist, are (for the most part) brought upon the slave by the imprudent sympathy of the self-styled philanthropists at the North. The author has not written this work for literary fame; nearly the whole is in colloquy, among characters who make no pretensions to literature of the higher order, page: vi-7[View Page vi-7] consequently, there has been no effort at ornament, above the plain, common style of social intercourse.
He is content that his plain, unadorned topographical descriptions should reflect no credit upon an imagination whose vividness has been chilled by the frosts of many winters; and, if successful in removing odium from a much slandered Southern community, and in throwing it back upon the latitude to which it belongs, his object is effected.
