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Buried Alive // Little Starlight // The Devil's Frying Pan // Tippoo Saib

Harper's Weekly Text
May 7, 1864, pp. 294 (2) – 295 (3)

Synopsis

One night, a misshapen black man boards a naval sloop with information that a Confederate ship is going to run the blockade the next night.  The naval men question the black man and discover that he and his family, all free, live on a small island in the Altamaha River.  The Confederate sailors plan on having a celebration before their ship leaves, so the black man and the naval officers set up a trap.  The next night, the naval officers surprise the Confederates and, after a brief struggle, overpower them.  The black man then asks if the naval officers will take him, his brother, and a runaway slave girl north with them.  The black man loves the runaway girl, who fled her master’s lewd designs, even though he knows she loves his brother, not him.  The naval officers agree to help them, and one, a doctor, marvels at the black man’s selflessness in aiding his rival and the object of his unrequited love.


Harper's Weekly References

History:

"The Slavery Question"
December 7, 1861, p. 770 (2)

Military Background:

"In Dixie"
April 4, 1863, p. 219 (4)

Illustrations:

"The Last Men at Beaufort, S.C."
November 30, 1861, p. 768 (3-4)

"’Work Over’: Scenes Among the Beaufort Contrabands"
December 21, 1861, p. 801 (1-4)

"Arrival of a Federal Column at a Planter’s House in Dixie"
April 4, 1863, p. 220 (1-4)

Commentary:

"The Old Story"
August 1, 1863, p. 482

 


 
 
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