Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 456, no. 10, October 1853

Chapter XII. gives us a hateful glimpse of an auction sale of slaves;

after which we accompany friend Haley, with poor Tom and some other human cattle, in _La Belle Rivière_, a boat on the Ohio, “floating gaily down the stream,” stuffed full of slaves, “under a brilliant sky, _the stripes and stars of free America waving and fluttering overhead_!” Who can read without a shudder of t...