The Sable Cloud

The Sable Cloud, by Nehemiah Adams
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Title: The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
Author: Nehemiah Adams
Release Date: January 6, 2005 [EBook #14615]
Language: English
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THE SABLE CLOUD:
A SOUTHERN TALE,
WITH NORTHERN COMMENTS.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "A SOUTH-SIDE VIEW OF SLAVERY."
"I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night" -- MILTON'S COMUS
BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. MDCCCLXI (1861)
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H O HOUGHTON
CONTENTS.
Chapter 1. Death and Burial of a Slave's Infant 1
Chapter 2. Northern Comments On Southern Life 5
Chapter 3. Morbid Northern Conscience 32
Chapter 4. Resolutions For a Convention 53
Chapter 5. The Good Northern Lady's Letter from the South 59
Chapter 6. Questions and Answers 118
Chapter 7. Ownership in Man.--the Old Testament Slavery 150
Chapter 8. The Tenure 177
Chapter 9. Discussion in Philemon's Church at the Return of Onesimus 205
Chapter 10. The Future 239