Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 99: what you’re looking at

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VENGEANCE IS MINE. a1 of de Lord begins dis night. T’ve seen it in de heavens—-I've read de signs of de times: _dar’s been wonders in de sky, and arops of blood on de corn. De Holy Spirit has bid me arise, and prepare myself. I am to slay mine enemies wid der own weapons; de black spirits contended wid de white *n de heabens, and I see de blacks victorious. Cheer up, woman. Yotrchil’ren shall no longer be sold from your bosom, nor your husband lashed at de whipping-post. *I am come to repay. ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” saith the Lord. Oh, Lord-a-mighty! he looked so turrible when he was a-talking; he said many more things, which I - can’t tell you as he said’em. ‘De Savior has ordered it, dat I be de liberator of my people—dat I lift ’em out of de hand of de oppressor. Dis night, we will begin His work. Not a one white man, woman or chile, will we leave alive in South ampton county; we will conquer it, as did Washington in de Rebolution. W'en de Lord say unto us, “Smite!” den will we smite. We will not torment ’em wid de scourge, or wid fire, nor defile der women, as dey have done wid ours. But -we will slay dem utterly, and consume dem from off de face of de yearth.’ — “Oh, Nelson, said I, clinging to him, as dey begun to go out, for de moon was sinkin’, and dey were in haste to be off, “w'atever you do to massa and missus, don’t kill little Katie.’ “*Yes, we must not spare one—not one—not de baby at its mammy’s breast,’ he said, shaking my hand berry hard. ‘Good-bye, Sophy. We'll be back after you, w’en it’s all - 2 “obe~ Keep quiet, Don’t let on you know anyt’ing. You ‘ shall be rich and happy—no more a slave. If de worst comes to de worst, fly to de Dismal Swamp. Dar will be frien’s dar” } “T still hung on to-him. ‘Don’t murder Katie, I whis pered, ‘I love her.’ comiclooks.conn) |