Picture of Slavery in the United States of America
Picture of Slavery in the United States of America
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Parents and children, and lovers; and associates in misery, whose cohabitation has been their only solace in privations, stripes, chains, disease, and starvation, are separated to glut the avarice, or to satiate the prodigality of the licentious slave-driver. Is he a just man?
Let us survey another scene in this labyrinth of Ameri- can tragedy. By the Bloody code of slave-laws, one white man's evidence against a coloured citizen is sufficient to criminate ; no coloured testimony against a white... witness is admissible; and where slavery is concerned, unless through political Avrangling or from revenge, and even in those cases ordinarily the attempt would only recoil upon the coloured man's friend, no white man will appear as a witness on behalf of a coloured person ; and the law au- 10* 114 PICTURE OF SLAVERY.
thorizes the court wliich cordenins a man found guilty of any crime, to appraise the slave, the value of whom is paid by the sherilf of the county to the slav^-holders. From this diabolical machination flow the following and similar developments of integrity, truth, justice, benevolence, and American freedom.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Parents and children, and lovers; and associates in misery, whose cohabitation has been their only solace in privations, stripes, chains, disease, and starvation, are separated to glut the avarice, or to satiate the prodigality of the licentious slave-driver. Is he a just man?
Let us survey another scene in this labyrinth of Ameri- can tragedy. By the Bloody code of slave-laws, one white man's evidence against a coloured citizen is sufficient to criminate ; no coloured testimony against a white... witness is admissible; and where slavery is concerned, unless through political Avrangling or from revenge, and even in those cases ordinarily the attempt would only recoil upon the coloured man's friend, no white man will appear as a witness on behalf of a coloured person ; and the law au- 10* 114 PICTURE OF SLAVERY.
thorizes the court wliich cordenins a man found guilty of any crime, to appraise the slave, the value of whom is paid by the sherilf of the county to the slav^-holders. From this diabolical machination flow the following and similar developments of integrity, truth, justice, benevolence, and American freedom.
What to read after Picture of Slavery in the United States of America?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George Bourne to read onlineMoreLess
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