[nag-devel] rd of plantation nigger

[Spaide B. <pli...@ga...>]

Ot improve either his temper or his communicativeness. He seemed to want
to get as far away from the rest of us as possible, and took up his
quarters in a remote corner of the Stockade, among utter strangers.
Those of us who wandered up in his neighborhood occasionally, to see how
he was getting along, were received with such scant courtesy, that we
did not hasten to repeat the visit. At length, after none of us had seen
him for weeks, we thought that comradeship demanded another visit. We
found him in the last stages of scurvy and diarrhea. Chunks of uneaten
corn bread lay by his head. They were at least a week old. The rations
since then had evidently been stolen from the helpless man by those
around him. The place where he lay was indescribably filthy, and his
body was swarming with vermin. Some good Samaritan had filled his little
black oyster can with water, and placed it within his reach. For a week,
at least, he had not been able to rise from the ground; he could barely
reach for the water near him. He gave us such a glare of recognition as
I remembered to have seen lig