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    An Accursed Race
    An Accursed Race
    An Accursed Race
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    An Accursed Race

    By Elizabeth Gaskell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
    An Accursed Race
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    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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      An Accursed Race - Elizabeth Gaskell

      An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell

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      Title: An Accursed Race

      Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

      Release Date: May 17, 2005 [eBook #2531]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCURSED RACE***

      Transcribed from the 1896 Smith, Elder and Co. From Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk.  Proofed by Jennifer Lee, Alev Akman and Andy Wallace.

      AN ACCURSED RACE

      Elizabeth Gaskell

      We have our prejudices in England.  Or, if that assertion offends any of my readers, I will modify it: we have had our prejudices in England.  We have tortured Jews; we have burnt Catholics and Protestants, to say nothing of a few witches and wizards.  We have satirized Puritans, and we have dressed-up Guys.  But, after all, I do not think we have been so bad as our Continental friends.  To be sure, our insular position has kept us free, to a certain degree, from the inroads of alien races; who, driven from one land of refuge, steal into another equally unwilling to receive them; and where, for long centuries, their presence is barely endured, and no pains is taken to conceal the repugnance which the natives of pure blood experience towards them.

      There yet remains a remnant of the miserable people called Cagots in the valleys of the Pyrenees; in the Landes near Bourdeaux; and, stretching up on the west side of France, their numbers become larger in Lower Brittany.  Even now, the origin of these families is a word of shame to them among their neighbours; although they are protected by the law, which confirmed them in the equal rights of citizens about the end of the last century.  Before then they had lived, for hundreds of years, isolated from all those who boasted of pure blood, and they had been, all this time, oppressed by cruel local edicts.  They were truly what they were popularly called, The Accursed Race.

      All distinct traces of their origin are lost.  Even at the close of that period which we call the Middle Ages, this was a problem which no one could solve; and as the traces, which even then were faint and uncertain, have vanished away one by one, it is a complete mystery at the present day.  Why they were accursed in the first instance, why isolated from their kind, no one knows.  From the earliest accounts of their state that are yet remaining to us, it seems that the names which they gave each other were ignored by

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