Among the Pines

Among the Pines, by James R.
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Title: Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
Author: James R. Gilmore

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AMONG THE PINES.
* * * * *
A NEW WORK, Descriptive of Southern Social Life, BY THE
AUTHOR OF AMONG THE PINES, Is now in course of publication
in THE "CONTINENTAL MONTHLY," PUBLISHED BY J. R.
GILMORE, 532 Broadway, NEW YORK.
* * * * *
AMONG THE PINES:
or, South in Secession Time.
by
EDMUND KIRKE.

Tenth Thousand. New York: J. R. Gilmore, 532 Broadway. Charles T.
Evans. 1862.
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1862, by J. R.
Gilmore, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.
M'crea & Miller, Stereotypers. C. A. Alvord, Printer

TO RICHARD B. KIMBALL,

THE ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, THE POLISHED GENTLEMAN,
AND MY OLD AND EVER-VALUED FRIEND,
THESE SKETCHES ARE DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.
PAGE.
* CHAPTER I.--ON THE ROAD.--Arrival at Georgetown.--The
Village Inn.--Nocturnal Adventures.--My African Driver.--His Strange
History.--Genuine Negro Songs.--Arrival at Bucksville. 10
* CHAPTER II.--WAYSIDE HOSPITALITY.--A Strange Meeting.--A
Well Ordered Plantation.--A Thunder-storm.--A New Guest.--The
Hidden Springs or Secession Exposed.--On the Way
Again.--Intelligence of the Negro.--Renconter with a Secessionist. 30
* CHAPTER III.--CROSSING THE RUNS.--The Black Declines His
Freedom.--His Reasons for so Doing.--A "native"
Abolitionist.--Swimming the Run.--Black Spirits and White.--Shelter.
55
* CHAPTER IV.--POOR WHITES.--The Mills House.--South
Carolina Clay-Eaters.--Political Discussion.--President Lincoln a
Negro.--"Three in a Bed and one in the Middle."--$250 reward.--A
Secret League. 69
* CHAPTER V.--ON THE PLANTATION.--The Planter's
Dwelling.--His House-Keeper.--The Process of Turpentine
Making.--Loss to Carolina by Secession.--The Dying Boy.--The Story
of Jim.--A Northern Man with Southern Principles.--Sam
Murdered.--Pursuit of the Overseer. 94
* CHAPTER VI.--THE PLANTER'S FAMILY.--The old Nurse.--Her
Story.--A White Slave-Woman's Opinion of Slavery.--The
Stables.--The Negro-Quarters.--Sunday Exercises.--The Taking of

Moye. 127
* CHAPTER VII.--PLANTATION DISCIPLINE.--The "Ole
Cabin."--The Mode of Negro Punishment.--The "Thumb-Screw."--A
Ministering Angel.--A Negro Trial.--A Rebellion.--A Turpentine
Dealer.--A Boston Dray on its Travels. 150
* CHAPTER VIII.--THE NEGRO HUNTER.--Young
Democrats.--Political Discussion.--Startling Statistics.--A Freed Negro.
169
* CHAPTER IX.--THE COUNTRY CHURCH.--Its Description.--The
"Corn-Cracker."--The News.--Strange Disclosure. 180
* CHAPTER X.--THE NEGRO FUNERAL.--The Burial Ground.--A
Negro Sermon.--The Appearance of Juley.--The Colonel's
Heartlessness.--The Octoroon's Explanation of it.--The Escape of Moye.
196
* CHAPTER XI.--THE PURSUIT.--The Start.--"Carolina
Race-Horses."--A Race.--We Lose the Trail.--A Tornado.--A Narrow
Escape.-- 207
* CHAPTER XII.--THE YANKEE SCHOOLMISTRESS.--Our New
Apparel.--"Kissing Goes by Favor."--Schools at the South. 222
* CHAPTER XIII.--THE RAILWAY STATION.--The Village.--A
Drunken Yankee.--A Narrow Escape.--Andy Jones.--A Light-Wood
Fire.--The Colonel's Departure. 227
* CHAPTER XIV.--THE BARBACUE.--The Camp-Ground.--The
Stump-Speaker.--A Stump Speech.--Almost a Fight.--The Manner of
Roasting the Ox. 239
* CHAPTER XV.--THE RETURN.--Arrival at the
Plantation.--Disappearance of Juley and her child.--The Old Preacher's
Story.--Scene Between the Master and the Slave. 253

* CHAPTER XVI.--"ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE."--Attempted
Whipping of Jim.--Appearance of the
"Corn-Cracker."--"Drowned.--Drowned." 260
* CHAPTER XVII.--THE SMALL PLANTER.--His House.--His
Wife.--His Negroes.--A Juvenile Darky.--Lazarus in "Ab'ram's
Buzzum."--White and Black Labor Compared.--The Mysteries of
"Rosum" manufacture. 277
* CHAPTER XVIII.--THE BURIAL OF JULE.--"He Tempers the
Wind to the Shorn Lamb."--The Funeral. 295
* CHAPTER XIX.--HOMEWARD BOUND.--Colonel A----
Again.--Parting with Scipio.--Why this Book was Written. 298
* CHAPTER XX.--CONCLUSION.--The Author's Explanations.--Last
News from Moye and Scipio.--Affecting Letter from Andy Jones.--The
End. 303
CHAPTER I.
ON THE ROAD.
Some winters ago I passed several weeks at Tallahassee, Florida, and
while there made the acquaintance of Colonel J----, a South Carolina
planter. Accident, some little time later, threw us together again at
Charleston, when I was gratified to learn that he would be my
compagnon du voyage as far north as New York.
He was accompanied by his body-servant, "Jim," a fine specimen of the
genus darky, about thirty years of age, and born and reared in his
master's family. As far as possible we made the journey by day,
stopping at some convenient resting-place by night; on which occasions
the Colonel, Jim, and myself would occupy the same or adjoining
apartments, "we white folks" sleeping on four posts, while the more
democratic negro spread his blanket on the floor. Thrown together thus
intimately, it was but natural that we should learn much of each other.

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