 | Decorative arts - 462 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year with intent to kill him for running away: that, on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...believed them to be concealed, they all fired at their game, but unfortunately missed. Does not your blood curdle? Yet he did not appear to be sensible that... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1823 - 366 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...believed them to be concealed, " they all fired at their game, but unfortunately missed." — Does not your blood curdle ? Yet he did not appear to be sensible... | |
 | 496 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year, with intent to kill him, for running away : that on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...believed them to be concealed, ' they all fired at their game, but unfortunately missed.' Does not your blood curdle ? " Vol. I. p. 186. less hypocrisy which... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 440 pages
...conversation, that he shot atone of his slaves last year with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...them to be concealed, " they " all fired at their game, but unfortunately " missed." Does not your blood curdle ? Yet he did not appear to be sensible... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 844 pages
...his slaves last year, with intent to kill him, for running away ; that, on another occasion, finding two runaway slaves had taken refuge on his plantation,...after dinner they went out to hunt the slaves, and bearing a rustling in the reeds or canes in which they believed them to be concealed, ' they all fired... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year, with intent to kill him, for running away; that, on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...believed them to be concealed, "they all fired at their game, but unfortunately missed." Does not your blood curdle? Yet he did not appear to be sensible that... | |
 | John Jackson (of Hull.) - China - 1829 - 52 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...plantation, he invited some of his friends out of town for dinner and a FROLIC ; that after dinner they went out to hunt the slaves, and hearing a rusling... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...conversation, that he shot at one of his own slaves last year, with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion, finding that two runaway slaves...dinner and a frolic ; that after dinner they went to hunt the slaves, and hearing a rustling in the reeds, or canes, in which they believed them to be... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...his slaves last year, with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion, fin ling that two runaway slaves had taken refuge on his plantation,...believed them to be concealed, ' they all fired at their game, but unfortunately missed.' Does not your blood curdle? Yet he did not appear to be sensible that... | |
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At a dining party of five or six gentlemen, I heard one of the guests, who is reputed a respectable planter, say, in the course of conversation, that he shot at one of his slaves last year with intent to kill him for running away ; that on another occasion,... 