An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
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Author(s)Lydia Maria Francis Child
ISBN / ASIN1507698305
ISBN-139781507698303
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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"[...]more every year, the colored people must eventually be the stronger party; and when this result happens, slavery must either be abolished, or government must furnish troops, of whose wages the free states must pay their proportion. As a proof of the effects of slavery on the temper, I will relate but very few anecdotes. The first happened in the Bahamas. It is extracted from a despatch of Mr. Huskisson to the governor of those islands: "Henry and Helen Moss have been found guilty of a misdemeanor, for their cruelty to their slave Kate; and those facts of the case, which seem beyond dispute, appear to be as follows:[...]".