As for the exhortation with which Mr. ——— closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).