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    398 accomplices.

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    Made That Terrible Fine Ladies History A...

    had and wh refused y not ? to Would wear slave it have - answered cotton the ? purpose Certainl if all y it Eng would land ) grown

    has have encouraged discouraged it . slavery Slavery to is the onl same y profitabl extent e in that the our production demand of a few commoditiesand cannotlike free labourbe rapidly

    goods not applied were to different not reason saleable wh kinds , we , slavery of should production would , lain , hav and e at diminished in being as far , obli as . ged these I do to

    use flaxen see any , hempen , and y woollen goods comp produced by free labour to Wh serve y was so good Mrs a . cause Stowe as ' s the proposal abolition met of with slavery a smile . l , becau as if it

    taug it were was ht an -day out to amiable work of think the , of pathway womanl of buy app ing ly y ing of , and impracticable usual our selling thoug consciences . ht p We ; lan we had ? to had simp always this never y sor been been t s of e-

    taug our every goods ht that as our cheap only as duty possible when : we that went may to market be a duty was , but to get a _&

    we have seenit is certainly not our only duty ; and reasoning by slavery analogy , as we long , are reall as we y as buy much slave accomp - lices goods in perpetuating as we are

    grown , accomplices in creating disease when we buy emerald-green ornaments

    fulness When of all . their the individuals duties of moral of a country responsibility act in , habitual suffering forget must - withsomethin

    which ensue . has The evil country and death goes in into it . partnershi It becom p es dependen , t on g in

    in but something which are subj the wicked ect partners to violent . Wicked are revolutions involved institutions ;— , - disturbances so Man do have not chester allied go , and on is ourselves punished miserie peace s , ,

    with with New slavery Orleans , on the . We high oug moral ht not gro to und that it is a great injustice to our fellow-men , but it cannot is also plain , such it without is the

    solidarite of human kindthat we encourage in the end _suffei'ing the , punishment which surely overtakes evileven in this world

    state This , of war society is not as that the of . onl the y evi slav l e th States at was immin A slave ent insurrection in such a

    . is auction alway room s possible at New . When Orleans , four and years after ago hearing , I stood the bids in the for *

    a steam-boat , , I saw men and women , sold , sometimes with their little children , and as often , separatel the would y—women b examin to look ed like at

    their horses teeth , their their mouths flesh opened felt to by see if it were - firm e buy and ers healthyand the whole head , sense and the of horror what slavery of it almost was came made over me my faint heart on

    the equals spot the . , revolting No descri , brutal ptions , reality that I . have Just read at this of present a slave ii sale me

    398 Accomplices.

    398 accomplices .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/38/