{"id":12942,"date":"2011-03-29T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2017-07-30T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:54:23","slug":"zoe-or-the-quadroons-triumph-a-tale-for-the-times-volume-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12942","title":{"rendered":"Zo\u00eb, or The Quadroon’s Triumph: A Tale for the Times (Volume II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zo\u00eb, Or, The Quadroon’s Triumph: A Tale for the Times (Volume II)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Truman and Spofford (Cincinnati)
\n1855
\n323 pages<\/p>\n

Mrs. Elizabeth D. Livermore<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Illustrations Henri Lovie<\/strong>, and Charles Bauerle<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“God has bid away the human soul in the black man’s skin and his darker person, that in finding it, we may re-discover our alienated and forgotten nature; and rejoice more over the one that was lost, than the ninety and nine who went not astray.”\u2014Belllows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHAPTER I.\u2014 Santa Cruz
\nCHAP. II\u2014 Emancipation
\nCHAP.III\u2014 The Retrospect
\nCHAP. IV.\u2014 Zo\u00eb’s Greeting to the Tropics
\nCHAP. V.\u2014 Mingling op the Old and the New
\nCHAP. VI.\u2014 Young America expatiates
\nCHAP. VII.\u2014 Zoe opens her Mission
\nCHAP. VIII.\u2014 Young America is heretical on Art
\nCHAP. IX.\u2014 The Queens op the Queen City
\nCHAP. X.\u2014Diamond cut Diamond
\nCHAP. XI\u2014The Shipwreck
\nCHAP. XII.\u2014”Books in Brooks.”
\nCHAP. XIII\u2014 Mrs. Pumpkin’s Tract for the Times
\nCHAP. XIV.\u2014 The Quarrel and its Denouement
\nCHAP. XV.\u2014 Young America makes a Declaration, not of Independence
\nCHAP. XVI.\u2014The War-horse Eagle
\nCHAP. XVII\u2014Home, with its Shadows
\nCHAP. XVIII.\u2014The Wormwood and the Gall
\nCHAP. XIX.\u2014 The Hurricane
\nCHAP. XX.\u2014 Light after Darkness
\nCHAP. XXI.\u2014 A Voice from Amazona
\nCHAP. XXII.\u2014The Church Recusant
\nCHAP. XXIII.\u2014 Letters and Reminiscences
\nCHAP. XXIV.\u2014The Closing Triumph<\/p>\n

We must now return to Santa Cruz<\/a>\u00a0and give a hasty sketch of the fortunes of George Carlan and his wife, during the twelve years absence of their daughter in Denmark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It will be recollected that the former, in emerging from slavery, had placed before himself two objects for which to live and labor\u2014wealth, and independence; or as it may be expressed in one phrase, independence through wealth. Towards these his aims were directed and his ambitious hopes constantly aspiring.<\/p>\n

Sophia, on the contrary, affectionate and retiring, as she was, shared but in a slight degree her husband’s restless wishes; and if ever her thoughts were turned towards his favorite goal, and her imagination excited by his visions of distant good attained through these means, it was that he and her child, more than herself, might win the happiness which would accrue from their possession.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carlan’s industry and enterprise had been crowned with success so far as to place them in comfortable circumstances.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, in comparison with most of his tribe, he was wealthy and was regarded with consideration by his own caste. But his affluence gave him no honorable position among the white Creoles of the island. To-be-sure, he had business relations with them, and the Danish officials treated him with a half friendly, half condescending familiarity, which was anything but agreeable. But by the English residents he was looked upon with distrust and aversion as an ambitious, discontented man, who was to be avoided and scorned on every possible occasion to prevent his impertinent encroachments upon their dignity and aristocratic rights. As these latter saw their power and influence decline in the island just in proportion to the losses and poverty incurred by their miserable management of their property, spendthrift habits, and ruinous absenteeism, so in the same ratio did they hate the Irish emigrants into whose hands their estates had fallen, or the colored people who, through their enterprise, were seizing upon their commerce and manufactures.<\/p>\n

Had George Carlan, when he emerged from slavery, possessed a true idea of the value of freedom in its relations to the training and development of the human soul above all things else, he would have been saved much bitterness of feeling and many heartaches, and in the end have prospered much better also in his worldly affairs. For by this principle deeply-rooted and acting vitally upon his daily life, he would have gained a self-possession equal to every emergency, an insight into the laws of commercial intercourse, and proper appreciation of the forces of nature, and the due balance to be preserved between the consumption of the products in which he dealt and the law of their supply, quite indispensable to success in any business department. This, too, would have given him that patient reliance on Providence in untoward seasons, and that geniality and kindness of demeanor in his social and business relations, which are better than a capital of thousands to one who launches forth on the sea of commercial life. But these ideas he had had no opportunity of learning in slavery, and it was not to be expected that he would begin his career as a merchant under better auspices, in these respects, than multitudes, who commence life with none of his disadvantages. Still he had much skill, shrewdness, and industry, and for several years his success was without a drawback, and, as was remarked in the commencement of this story, he was enabled to surround himself and family with not only the comforts, but many of the luxuries of life…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Volume II here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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