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

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.

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CHAPTER I.

DEATH AND BURIAL OF A SLAVE'S INFANT 1

CHAPTER II.

NORTHERN COMMENTS ON SOUTHERN LIFE 5

CHAPTER III.

MORBID NORTHERN CONSCIENCE 32