' What are you doing here? '
She made some reply about hiding from her father, who had threatened her.
'That won't do,' said the overseer, ' you are skulking from your work, go down on your knees.'
The girl knelt down on the ground, he struck her several blows with his raw hide whip, and although I was present he told her to pull up her clothes and lie down.
Without any hesitation, without a word of entreaty, she laid down, and drew all her clothes up under her armpits, exposing, I could not help thinking, a beautifully shaped bottom and thighs. He seized a bunch of twigs, and gave her beautiful ebony bum such a switching, making the poor thing cry and scream as she writhed about in her agony, as the twigs fairly cut into her flesh, and brought the blood. I must own that the sight affected me most deeply, and I felt a tingling sensation about my own bumfiddle, which but for his being engaged as he was he must have observed from my agitation and deep blushes. That scene can never be erased from my memory as long as I live. At length he let her go, and remounting his horse, it was as much as I could do to compose myself under the ardent looks with which he seemed to regard me, in fact I almost wished he would venture upon some sort of freedoms with me, and am sure I should have forgiven him whatever lengths he had gone to.
' I've often heard of women in the family-way being laid on their faces to be flogged, holes having been dug in the ground for their bellies to go in. '
' What disgusting cruelty! ' exclaimed Flora, ' but you must have seen some really seductive scenes Laura, tell us one of them, don't mention what seems to make one's flesh crawl. '
' Well then, I will tell you about a nigger's camp meeting, you know it is a kind of burlesque revivalist affair, and ought to be deeply religious, but you should see the flirtations, my dears, it is the only chance the handsome and good looking young nigger fellows and lasses may have of seeing each other (if on distant plantations) for months perhaps. When I was stopping with Mrs. Schenk I stay with her old cook Dorcas to one held close eye, in a beautiful wooded dell in Florida. The preacher was a notedly sanctified old nigger called Hilkiah — Ole Hilkiah, I ought to say. Well at first they commenced praying, then singing hymns, which all thoroughly enjoyed, but when Ole Hilkiah, full of the spirit as an Evangelist, had once begun to hold forth, the younger part of his congregation gradually paired off for love making in the shady recesses of the wood, so I got away from Dorcas to see as much of the fun as I could.'
' After wandering a short time the sounds of joyous laughter attracted me towards a small glade, and peeping through the bushes, I saw three young couples on the grass, none of them more than fifteen or sixteen years of age. It was a beautifully shaded spot, quite protected by the overhanging foliage from the fierce rays of the afternoon sun, whilst a bubbling rill of deliciously cool water, added to the enjoyability of their retreat.
'You may be sure I watched their proceedings with breathless interest.
' Golly Sue, you had fine leg! ' said one good looking boy, pulling up his gal's petticoats, in spite of her pretended resistance.
'' No, nebber, nebber, Sambo! No one shall see dar…'
And if she had not been black perhaps I should have seen her blush, and at the time I really thought her face turned much blacker.
The others laughed, and encouraged him to go on, and take' 'dat dam modest sham out of de silly gal; make um all free alike, etc.'
'See dar, Miss Sue, look at dem oders,dars Jack and Joe hab got um jocks out, and Suke and Poll all ready. Gorramighty, I'll hab you, see how stiff um is.'
She struggled, but he threw her almost flat backwards, and tried to force her legs open, her ebony skin looked deliciously firm and polished, and displayed a lovely development of form.
' She was too strong for him, and fully bore out Queen Elizabeth's maxim,' that no woman can be ravished by a single man against her will.'
Manoeuvre as he would, she kept her thighs closed, and wriggled her bum so that he never had a fair chance.
' At length he changed his tactics, and desisting from the direct attack, commenced kissing and talking to her solftly, and from what I could make of it, drawing her attention to the other two couples who were both in the height of what we may call a good fucking match.
' You should have seen prudish Sue's eyes how ‹f they sparkled and dilated at the sight, still she kept answering to his entreaties, ' I dar'nt, I dar'nt I Sambo, for fear um babby.' Then he whispered (something else, which she seemed to consent to, and he at once directed his mouth to the black curly bush which shaded her dark lipped cunny, as her 1 legs slightly relaxed their tightness. His tongue was soon busy, and I could see afforded the black wench evident pleasure, from the way she writhed about under his lascivious suckings and tittillations. She had come to the meeting in low bronzed slippers and nice white stockings, with a pink stripe in them, quite a bit of extravagance for a little nigger girl I should say, but they looked particularly nice in contrast to her ebony thighs, and for all her affected prudishness, I am sure she would have been vastly disappointed if no opportunity had come for the display.
' It puts me in mind of the tale of a young lady who went out somewhere with a gentleman to supper, and when desperately pressed to stop with him, at last declared it was impossible, as she was quite unprepared to stop out, and when at length, she found he would have her ready or not, it turned out that she had really brought her nightdress with her.
' You know a little while ago Maud expressed her disbelief in any man kissing or careing to kiss us there, I was a little bashful then, but now we have once done the trick with this dear dildoe, all reserve is gone, and you are welcome to know all I know.
' Then to go on. One slipper came off, and somehow Sambo as he laid below her managed to place her foot on his affair, which was in quite a rampant state, and impatient to be caressed. The touch seemed to send a thrill through her frame: that foot pressed and rolled his pego on his thigh or belly, till they were both lost to time and sense in a delirium of extacy, and I could see the pearly coloured essence of life spurting from it all over her foot. This ended the first act.'
' Jack and Joe with their gals, had now come round to see how Sambo had fared, and at once insisted on his doing her properly. Suke and Poll each held one of Sue's arms, whilst their boys held her legs open, and Sambo, nothing loth, his steed as fiery as ever, soon delighted me by letting me see how a maidenhead is lost and won. The girl screamed, but he pushed on to victory, whilst, horror of horrors, would you believe it, as soon as Jack and Joe found he was safely and securely in possession, than one of them actually began to fuck his bottomhole, whilst the other did the same to his mate; the two girls, Suke and Poll, seemed as astonished as I was, and banged the boys with their hands till the slaps could have been heard a long way off, but it only seemed to invigorate them more and more for their triumvirate fuck as I should call it, at any rate I know they all seemed to emit at the same time in a perfect frenzy of lust.'
' Rather disgusted, I turned from the sight of such extraordinary depravity in young boys, but have since learned that it is often taught them by overseers and masters, who prefer to gratify their lusts upon boys rather than girls, and so teach the young niggers the art and practice of sodomy.'
' As I retraced my steps towards the camp meeting once more, I suddenly came upon Ole Hilkiah himself, seated under a tree, with a very pretty girl of a much lighter skin than usual, in fact she must have been three parts white at least, and I at once knew her as Mr. Schenk's 'Lizz a girl who I believe was both daughter and grand- daughter to her master, in fact she was his pet, and did almost as she liked, although of course a slave. She was considered very pious, and would never enter into the least kind of flirtation with young or old, and was considered a very paragon of virtue on the estate. u They were seated on the slope at the foot of a large tree, so I managed quite easily to creep up behind them unseen.
' Berry good ob you, Miss Lizz' I heard Ole Hilkiab say, ' want to ask me more about de holy book-am it right to marry am it right to lub your feller creeturs? Whar would de worl be Miss, if nebber no babbies? What um book say, ' Be fruidful an muldeply,' dars de first commandment.'
' He let his bible fall on the turf as he went on, ' You hab little cunny, Miss Lizz, little ting here, just between um legs, little ting cubbered wid soft nicey hair; what dat for, um like to know? '
' The old sinner was trying to get his hand under her clothes, and she was all blushes, seeming unable to help herself.
' ' De good Lord, order ebbery gal to hab childer, see Miss Lizz dars de ting he make dem with!'
