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SLAVERY IN AMERICA. 97
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Ms man children is allowed , by by different his reli mothers gion to have , alike many to share wives his , and if goods lie the brings father and up to of
inherit famil his is position white and . In the the mother slave black States , it of is America quite common , for the a y
the father father children being to sell a his mulatto Slavery children , destroys and ; the and famil mother cases y feeling have white occurred , and the affords mother in which the has whites sold the
every temptation . to immorality . It nourishes , their ignorance , their hurtful despotism to , the their white overbearing man than pride the black and brutality . Its effect — , in on fact individuals it is more
boasting is seen again , aggressive in the sp character irit of their of press the take slave . They States are of the , in Central Southern the bull America States ying ,
which wish to invade Cubaand to possession _,, , for the purpose of making slavery a powerful , national , and per * manent institution
thirty A great forty change . has come slavery over the tone t as of a punishment the Southern for Sfcate crime _®; ?
or years ago , , excep fessed was universall as a terrible y considered eviland wrong the day , its was existence looked in forward America to when was con she
-The might four follow first the presidents example , of , Great Washing anxious Britain ton desire , , and Jefferson emanci for that , pate Madison happy her slaves , _timev and
-Far No Monroe one different , then alL manifested advocated is the case slavery their now as The a useful clergy and and beneficial the most institution eminent
-. beneficial writers of for the the South slave openl and y advocate to the slavery progress as an of the institution civilized necessary
world . The South is ever , hungry to gain new territory , for the purpose with that of of increasing the freeThe the power annexation of the of slave Texas States the war , in with comparison Mexico ,
the attacks on Cuba . the outrages on freemen , who strive to settle Kansasall have the , same origin . If the North were but faithful
to its princi , ples , the South could never have succeeded in extending _slavery . and of the North
Butalas ! the North is not faithful , men , when and free they , Englishmen South are siding too with often those traitors who to are their cordial princip and les
kind to them go but who , are at the same time tyrants and robbers towards others , . Infinite harm is done by the false representations insensiblform
public misle of travellers d op falling inion , , who and , they it by is generall their not much printed do to be into statements wondered the hands , at that of kind they y and are
feeling hospitable , themselves slave , as holders almost , and bound when y in honor they , become to see nothing the guests but of what such is ,
generall good . This y well is treated the more , thoug easy h , because even these slaves are in sometimes domestic service whipped are ,
which and by falls the hands under the of their of owners a guest . But in on a the slave whole owner , the ' s treatment house is eye
mild . The guest would judge differently if he visited the cotton
Slavery In America. 97
SLAVERY IN AMERICA . 97
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/25/
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