Excerpt from Southern Echoes Few, very few now are the genuine old time plantation darkies. The old colored retainer is almost a thing of the past and his passing might serve for the theme of an interesting bit of sectional history. Silently and slowly the great throng of them have gone, leaving nothing but a memory in the place once theirs. Yet no obituaries are written, telling how they have lain down the shovel and the hoe, in very truth; just a few of them are left and their fidelity deserves endless praise. The dialect too, of these dark-skinned comedies and tragedies of the old times is pas sing, and the less pleasing, less picturesque speech of the school-bred darky is taking its place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.