The Rebellion Of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell - Plot & Excerpts
He gave no greeting. He didn’t smile. Instead, he took out a newspaper and held it up: The Charleston Mercury. He opened it and began to calmly read notices for lost property. Run away, a Negro woman and her child. A few days before she left, I burned her face to make the letter T. One hundred dollars reward for my man Achilles. He has both ears notched at the top and is well scarred from the whip. Lost property seemed to be a common problem in Charleston as the notices went on and on. When the list of horrors had been recited, the speaker put down the newspaper and broke into a spirited denunciation of something called the Slave Act. It had to do with runaways. I had never seen a slave, yoked or runaway, and had never heard of this law. But those around me seemed to have heard of it, and by the time the speaker was done, Cornell Hall was a sea of indignation. Everyone had something to say to the person next to him, except me who was there alone and thinking about a warm bowl of stew.
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