Some observers even cited the factor of “negro fatigue.” Morgan notes that a fifty year old man in 1877 had spent most of his life “worrying over the South and the Negro” first during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the four years of Civil War, and later during twelve years of Reconstruction.

On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.

[…] as soon as the cloth became dry it was redipt in the solution and reapplied. I was agreeably surprised to find that within forty-eight hours the swelling had gone.

Nothing was more frightful to me than his caresses, and the apprehensions of being with child again by him was ready to throw me into fits.