A deserted homestead is always a sad sight; but here in the
South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every
such overgrown plantation and empty house is a harbinger of freedom to the
slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves
themselves, should rejoice.
SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard
Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 205
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