Another connection of this kind, was a man who bought a beautiful
girl from Kentucky, for a bed companion, and paid for her eleven
hundred dollars. He lived with her about sixteen years and had five
children. In the fall of 1837 he determined to remove from the city,
and take up his residence in the Island of Barbadoes. Before leaving
he sold this woman and _his_ five children for thirty-three hundred
dollars. I was informed that this family was the most interesting
and lovely group of children ever witnessed, and in only one of them
could be traced the least shade of African blood. Instances of this
kind often occur, and yet men who do it are regarded as _human_, and
those who make laws to legalize such acts are _christian_ in their
_tendencies_ and _education_, and those who support them are a proud
and chivalrous people, and claim to be _civilized_!! Alliances of this
nature have been continued so long between slave women and white men,
that there are a great many slaves in whom cannot be traced the least
shade, either in form or feature, of the Ethiopian; and they are also
of all complexions, from the light flaxen hair and bright blue eye,
and the sandy and freckled countenance, and the keen black piercing
eye, and clear beautiful white skin with rosy cheeks, making the very
perfection of loveliness and beauty. Yet they are forbidden by the
rules of society to hold rank above the blackest slave, and the common
civilities of the social circle are never extended to them. The life
of a mulatto girl, or Quadroon, as they are called at the South, is as
strictly marked out, and the path which she is to take has been so long
beaten, that she is as much confined to it as if it was a fixed law in
the slave code.