 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 372 páginas
...ransomed this young infant from slavery, but it will not escape death, unless you direct some one of these women to take the place of its mother, and nurse it, until I shall be able to provide for it otherwise." The French officers who were present supported my request.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1876 - 494 páginas
...ransomed this young infant from slavery, but it will not escape death, unless you direct some one of these women to take the place of its mother, and nurse it until I shall be able to provide for it otherwise.' The French officers who were present supported my request.... | |
 | Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye - 1897 - 188 páginas
...ransomed this young infant from slavery, but it will not escape death unless you direct some one of these women to take the place of its mother and nurse it, until I shall be able to provide for it otherwise." The English officer found a woman who consented to go to... | |
 | Katherine E. Lawn, Claudio R. Salvucci - 2005 - 335 páginas
...just rescued this infant from slavery, but it will not escape death unless you order some one of these women to take the place of its mother and nurse it,...have them taken to Boston by way of Montreal.... I was preparing to leave the fort when the father of the infant was found; he had been wounded by the... | |
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... in my reflections, when I saw an English officer pass who happened to be well acquainted with the French language. I addressed him therefore in a firm tone : " Sir, I have just ransomed this young infant from slavery, but it will not escape death,... 