Author: George W. Henry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780483389649

Excerpt from Tell Tale Rag, and Popular Sins of the Day, Vol. 1: In This Book a Cotton Rag Is Made, as It Were, a Living Oracle, Giving Its Own History Whilst Serving as Raiment on Twelve Different Masters, Relating Each One of Their Secret, Besetting and Popular Sins In this work the Rag is made a living oracle, as if it were relating its own history tattling every thing it saw and heard, and exposing the iniquities and fashionable sins of its several owners, while clothing their persons, by night and by day. Commencing its autobiography where It was planted in the Cotton Fields of South Carolina, by Uncle Sam and Aunt Dinah, pious slaves on the plantation, who were made the hero and heroine of these volumes about the same as Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe were represented in the Log Cabin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.