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CLOTELLE: A TALE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
by William Wells Brown
CHAPTER I
THE SLAVE'S SOCIAL CIRCLE.
WITH the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of
mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man
who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother
stands, a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and
towns of the Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does
not amount to more than one in four of the slave population. This
fact is of itself the best evidence of the degraded and immoral
condition of the relation of master and slave. Throughout the
Southern States, there is a class of slaves who, in most of the
towns, are permitted to hire their time from their owners, and who
are always expected to pay a high price.
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