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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.
CHAPTER I.
DEATH AND BURIAL OF A SLAVE'S INFANT 1