 | Gerda Lerner - African American women - 1981 - 254 pages
...slavery we live surrounded by prostitutes. . . . God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system. . . . Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one...concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto... | |
 | Louis P. Masur - History - 1999 - 562 pages
...monstrous system and wrong and iniquity. Perhaps the rest of the world is as bad — this only I see. Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one...you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends to... | |
 | Kenneth S. Lynn - History - 1984 - 242 pages
...or mulatto woman for being a thing we can't name? God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system and wrong and iniquity. . . . Like the patriarchs of old...you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends so... | |
 | Daniel Aaron - American literature - 1987 - 430 pages
...woman for being a thing we can't name? God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system, a wrong and an iniquity! Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 230 pages
...of wives, but we are only the mistresses of harems," one planter's wife complained. Another wrote, "Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and concubines and the mulattoes one sees in every family resemble the white children. My disgust sometimes... | |
 | Susan Gillman - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 228 pages
...threatened a more private, familial order, as a well-known 1861 entry in Chestnut's diary suggests: Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one...concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto... | |
 | G. Thomas Couser - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 298 pages
...elsewhere. Who thinks any worse of a Negro or Mulatto woman for being a thing we can't name. . . . Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives & their concubines, & the Mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children. 13... | |
 | William W. Freehling - History - 1990 - 660 pages
...worst of slavery, continued Mrs. Chesnut's protest, is to "live surrounded by prostitutes." Husbands "live all in one house with their wives and their...you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household but" her own. These "she seems to think drop from the clouds My disgust sometimes... | |
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Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. 
