: Hatchie the Guardian Slave; or The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Ashton Warren T - African Americans Fiction; Enslaved persons United States Fiction

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HATCHIE THE GUARDIAN SLAVE;

THE HEIRESS OF BELLEVUE.

A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west

WARREN T. ASHTON.

Boston: B. B. Mussey and Company, and R. B. Fitts and Company

Reprinted 1972 from a copy in the Fisk University Library Negro Collection New World Book Manufacturing Co., Inc. Hallandale, Florida 33009

"Here is a man, setting his fate aside, Of comely virtues."

SHAKSPEARE

"Is this the daughter of a slave?"

KNOWLES.

INTRODUCTION.

In the summer of 1848 the author of the following tale was a passenger on board a steamboat from New Orleans to Cincinnati. During the passage--one of the most prolonged and uncomfortable in the annals of western river navigation--the plot of this story was arranged. Many of its incidents, and all its descriptions of steamboat life, will be recognized by the voyager of the Mississippi.

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