 During these seven months, the continual extortions and oppressions to which your brother, and the other white prisoners were subject, are indescribable. Sometimes sums of money were demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times,...  Ladies' Magazine - Page 1391829Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1830 - 758 pages
...sometimes piece* of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the. white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times, have I returned from that dreary prison at... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1829 - 340 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs ; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...together, I could not go into the prison till after Tk, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times, have I returned... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Missionaries - 1830 - 288 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs ; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...their friends without. Then, again, the servants were forbidR2 den to carry in their food, without an extra fee. Sometimes, for days and days together, I... | |
 | American Lady - Women - 1833 - 248 pages
...demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs ; at other times, an order would be issued that they should not speak to each other, or have any communication with their friends without. Then the servants were forbidden to carry in their food without an extra fee. Sometimes, for days and days... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs ; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...could not go into the prison till after dark, when 1 had two miles to walk on returning to the house. Oh how many, many times, have I returned from that... | |
 | Joseph Tracy - Black people - 1840 - 764 pages
...sometimes pieces of clolh, and handkerchiefs ; at other times, an order would be issued, that tha white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in retuming to tlie house. O how many, many times, hare I returned from that dreary prison at... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1844 - 426 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times, have I returned from that dreary prison at... | |
 | Amos Blanchard - Martyrs - 1844 - 552 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...forbidden to carry in their food, without an extra fue. Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I... | |
 | John Dowling - Missionaries - 1847 - 322 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...extra fee. Sometimes, for days and days together," says this Christian heroine, " I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 460 pages
...sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs ; at other times an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have...the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk in returning to the house. O how many, many times, have I returned from that dreary prison at... | |
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