slave-babe

"Dear me," said he, "I should try to feel and act just as I suppose those Southerners do who, you say, are fairly represented by this lady's letter about the slave-babe."

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

A little negro slave-babe, it seems, is dead, and its owner and mistress is acting and speaking as Northerners do!

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

Pharaoh's daughter was touched with the cry of the little slave-babe, Moses; but what does that prove? that Egyptian bondage was not "an enormous wrong," a

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

Think of the little slave-babe, and the Southern lady's letter, which have given occasion to all our conversation.

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

I ask one simple question: Is not this slave-babe, (and her mother,) of "the down-trodden," and is not this lady one of the down-treading?

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

This being so, it must follow that when a slave-babe dies, the only sorrow in the hearts of the white owners is such as they feel when a colt is kicked to death or a heifer is choked.

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

Rather than believe that your slaves are commonly regarded by you as your fellow-creatures, having rights which you love to consider, or, that you do not mercilessly dispose of them to promote your selfish interests, we, the Northern people, who have had the very best of teachers on the subject of slavery, learnedly theoretical, reasoning from the eternal principles of right, would incline to believe that your interest in the burial of this little slave-babe was merely that which your own child would feel on seeing her kitten carefully buried at the foot of the apple-tree.

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

a spot to be the grave of a little slave-babe, and behaving themselves as though they had feelings toward it and its mother irrespective of the market-price of slaves.

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842