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“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.”

World Mind Long Body Food Cooking Misery Details Culinary Distress Mind And Body Inventor Recreation Harassment Overlooked Weariness Banquets

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition