But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”
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