Author: E. S. Abdy

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• Neely Tucker (1)
  • IN: Murder, D.C. (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One day I went to see the "slaves' pen" -- a wretched hovel, "right against" the Capitol, from which it is distant about half a mile, with no house intervening. The suicide alone is accessible to the eye of a visitor; what passes within being reserved for the exclusive observation of its owner, (a man of the name of Robey,) and his unfortunate victims. It is surrounded by a wooden paling fourteen or fifteen feet in height, witht he posts outside to prevent escape and separated from the building by a space too narrow to admit of a free circulation of air. At a small window above, which was unglazed and exposed alike to the heat of summer and the cold of winter, so trying to the constituition, two or three sable faces appeared, looking out wistfully to while away the time and catch a refreshing breezer...
    FROM: Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of America, (1833), Journal, UK