Tuesday, August 18, 2015

18 March 1861

"God forgive us but ours is a monstrous system and wrong and iniquity. Perhaps the rest of the world is as badthis only I see. Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines, and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white childrenand every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends so to think."