Raynors 2012-09
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A complete and authentic issue of the Columbian Centinel, Boston, November 27, 1790, 4pp., disbound VG. From the front page “A Georgia Planter’s Method of Spending Time,” provides a 2/3 column negative observation. In small part, “About six in the morning he quits his bed and orders his horse ... then swallows a drm of bitters .. and sets out upon the tour of his plantation. ... stop at the Negro houses, and if he sees any lurking at home ...he immediately inquires the cause; If no sufficient reason is given he applies his rattan whip to the shoulders of the slave ... before he alights at his own door, a tribe of young Negroes, in a primitive state of nakedness, rush out to meet him and receive the horse. ...”
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