# Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 456, no. 10, October 1853

Author: Various

Genre: Scotland -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78090

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## Summary

after which we accompany friend Haley, with poor Tom and some other human cattle, in _La Belle Rivière_, a boat on the Ohio, “floating gaily down the stream,” stuffed full of slaves, “under a brilliant sky, _the stripes and stars of free America waving and fluttering overhead_!” Who can read without a shudder of the young mother, whose infant has been deceitfully sold from her--who is suddenly told of her bereavement: “she did not scream, the shot had passed too straight and direct through her heart for cry or tear. Dizzily she sate down. Her slack hands fell lifeless by her side. Her eyes looked straight forward, but she saw nothing. All the noise and the hum of the boat, the groaning of...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER LII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII. finds Eliza and her husband in the Quaker settlement,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART X.--CHAP. XLVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER LI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER L.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter XII. gives us a hateful glimpse of an auction sale of slaves;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-volume-456-no-10-october-1853-78090/chapters/1/index.md)