Preface
_ TO MY DEAR FATHER DR. RICHARD CLARKE
OF SELMA, ALABAMA MY HERO AND MY BEAU IDEAL
OF A GENTLEMAN I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
WITH THE LOVE OF HIS DAUGHTER
PREFACE
IN writing this little volume, I had for my primary object the idea of keeping alive many of the old stories, legends, traditions, games, hymns, and superstitions of the Southern slaves, which, with this generation of negroes, will pass away. There are now no more dear old "Mammies" and "Aunties" in our nurseries, no more good old "Uncles" in the workshops, to tell the children those old tales that have been told to our mothers and grandmothers for generations-- the stories that kept our fathers and grandfathers quiet at night, and induced them to go early to bed that they might hear them the sooner.
Nor does my little book pretend to be any defence of slavery. I know not whether it was right or wrong (there are many pros and cons on the subject)； but it was the law of the land, made by statesmen from the

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