 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Buildings - 1906 - 582 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky. Freedom a Disappointment Montgomery Advertiser. [August 13, 1865] NINE hundred of [the negroes] assembled... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - History - 1912 - 264 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." The idea spread abroad that the government would confiscate the property of ex-Confederates, and every... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1912 - 268 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....summer and to the frosts of winter. He . . . was turned loose,naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." The idea spread abroad that the government would... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - United States - 1913 - 652 pages
...from slavery and educated himself, said of the freedman in 1865, "He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." There were 4,000,000 of these people in 1865, more than whites and blacks together in the entire nation... | |
 | United States - 1919 - 564 pages
...none of the conditions of self-preservation or selfprotection. He was free from the individual master, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....he must leave his old master, change his name, quit J work for a time, perhaps get a new wife, and hang around the Federal soldiers in camp or garrison,... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - United States - 1921 - 626 pages
...slavery and educated himself, said of the freedman in 1865, " He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." There were 4,000,000 of these people in 1865, more than whites and blacks together in the entire nation... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1924 - 748 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, or friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." Thinking that slavery meant toil and that freedom meant only idleness, the slave after he was set free... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1927 - 606 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....him shelter, but a slave to the rains of summer and the frosts of winter. He was . . . turned loose, naked, and hungry to the open sky." Carl Schurz, a... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Industries - 1927 - 536 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky." Thinking that slavery meant toil and that freedom meant only idleness, great numbers of the freedmen... | |
 | Walter Lynwood Fleming - Business & Economics - 1927 - 192 pages
...slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet....frosts of winter. He was turned loose naked, hungry and destitute."3 "FORTY ACRES AND A MULE" The "Forty Acres and a Mule" delusion exer1 Life and Times of... | |
| |
He was free from the individual master, but the slave of society. He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet. He was free from the old quarter that once gave him... 
