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94 &LAVEKY IN AMERICA.
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XIII—SLAVERY IN AMERICA.
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^» There are fifteen slave States in Ame...
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94 &Laveky In America.
94 _& LAVEKY IN AMERICA .
Xiii—Slavery In America.
XIII—SLAVERY IN AMERICA .
^» There Are Fifteen Slave States In Ame...
_^» There are fifteen slave States in America—DelawareMaryland
, , Virginia , the two Carolinas , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Louisiana , TexasMississiiArkansasKentuckyTennesseeand Missouri .
Having , lately visited pp , all of these , , except , Texas , and , considering it important that no witnesses should shrink from giving their
testimony on the great cause now pending before the court of the world , we wish in a few words to state some part of what we have seen
and heard in slave States and in free . Of the latter there are eighteen . The difference of character between them and the slave
States , is strongly marked . To begin with the feature that first strikes a traveller ' s eye , the free States are remarkable for their activity ;
every one works with an eagerness that shews he is struggling to attain to a higher position than that he occtipies . Probably there is
not a man in the free States of America , who has driven a cart for so long a period as twenty years ; certainly it would be impossible to
find two successive generations of carters in the same family . All is in a state of change , every one hopes to advance , to obtain
more power , more scope , more dollars . In the slave States , on the other hand , there is an appearance of poverty ; all tells of neglect , and men
look listless , and satisfied to let things be . Even the blacks , with few exceptions , have a contented , careless air , resembling that of the
Italians . The desire to improve their condition has not entered into the mind of the mass . _Iii these fifteen States of the American Union
one looks about for the characteristics of a republic , but though they may not indeed all be absentthey are hard to find . The conversation
, in hotels , railway carriages , and steam boats , abounds in republican phraseology , but where is the reality to which it should correspond ?
In these fifteen States of the American Union are 3 , 700 , 000 human beings who have no legal rihtsno legal right to their persons or
their laborand who can be g sold , fromhand to hand like horses or dogs . In , these fifteen _Repiiblican States , there are about 400 , 000
human beings who have no right to vote , and who cannot mix with .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/22/
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