But not till the Haytian
Terror of Toussaint was the trade in men even checked; while
the national statute of 1808 did not suffice to stop it. How
the Africans poured in!--fifty thousand between 1790 and
1810, and then, from Virginia and from smugglers, two
thousand a year for many years more. So the thirty thousand
Negroes of Georgia in 1790 doubled in a decade,--were over
a hundred thousand in 1810, had reached two hundred thou-
sand in 1820, and half a million at the time of the war. Thus
like a snake the black population writhed upward.
But we must hasten on our journey. This that we pass as
we near Atlanta is the ancient land of the Cherokees,--that
brave Indian nation which strove so long for its fatherland,
until Fate and the United States Government drove them
beyond the Mississippi. If you wish to ride with me you must
come into the "Jim Crow Car." There will be no objection,
--already four other white men, and a little white girl with
her nurse, are in there. Usually the races are mixed in there;
but the white coach is all white. Of course this car is not so
good as the other, but it is fairly clean and comfortable.
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