Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw was born to a Mississippi squatter family that got ahead and bought better land far from their squatter site. There the neighbors are a family German immigrants, who have worked their land in the Louisiana forest without using slaves. The Whitlaws promptly purchase two slaves and send Jonathan to school in Natchez where he gets the training he needs to work as a confidential clerk for Colonel Dart, owner of the largest plantation in the area. Whitlaw is soon in charge of punishment of the slaves. He is also scheming fo acquire some land of his own but after some frustration, concentrates on exposing the Blighs, who hide runaway slaves, in the hope of buying their land on the cheap after they've been ruined.

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Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw was born to a Mississippi squatter family that got ahead and bought better land far from their squatter site. There the neighbors are a family German immigrants, who have worked their land in the Louisiana forest without using slaves. The Whitlaws promptly purchase two slaves and send Jonathan to school in Natchez where he gets the training he needs to work as a confidential clerk for Colonel Dart, owner of the largest plantation in the area. Whitlaw is soon in charge of punishment of the slaves. He is also scheming fo acquire some land of his own but after some frustration, concentrates on exposing the Blighs, who hide runaway slaves, in the hope of buying their land on the cheap after they've been ruined.

Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, or Scenes on the Mississippi Under twenty, and of the very lowest order Of society. Their garments were Scanty and sordid, and they had much the look and air of that poorly-paid class known in every manufacturing town in the United States as the gals Of the factory. 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.