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Autore |
Weld Theodore Dwight <1803-1895.> |
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Titolo |
American slavery as it is [[electronic resource] ] : testimony of a thousand witnesses / / [compiled] by Theodore Dwight Weld |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0287-3 |
0-8078-6958-9 |
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Edizione |
[DocSouth Books ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (552 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Enslaved persons - Southern States - Social conditions |
Slavery - Southern States |
African Americans - Social conditions |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes index. |
Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth) Project. |
Originally published: New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""V. TREATMENT OF THE SICK. THE SLAVES SUFFER FROM INHUMAN NEGLECT WHEN SICK.""""PERSONAL NARRATIVES�PART II.""; ""TESTIMONY OF THE REV. WILLIAM T. ALLAN, LATE OF ALABAMA.""; ""NARRATIVE OF MR. WILLIAM LEFTWICH, A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. LEMUEL SAPINGTON, A NATIVE OF MARYLAND.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MRS. NANCY LOWRY, A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. WM. C. GILDERSLEEVE, A NATIVE OF GEORGIA""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. HIRAM WHITE�A NATIVE OF NORTH CAROLINA.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. JOHN M. NELSON�A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA."" |
""GENERAL TESTIMONY TO THE CRUELTIES INFLICTED UPON SLAVES.""""PUNISHMENTS.""; ""PERSONAL NARRATIVES�PART III.""; ""NARRATIVE AND TESTIMONY OF REV. FRANCIS HAWLEY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF REUBEN G. MACY AND RICHARD MACY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MR. ELEAZAR POWELL.""; ""TESTIMONY ON THE AUTHORITY OF REV. WM. SCALES, LYNDON, VT.""; ""TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH IDE, ESQ.""; ""TESTIMONY OF |
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REV. PHINEAS SMITH.""; ""TESTIMONY OF PHILEMON BLISS, ESQ.""; ""TESTIMONY OF REV. WILLIAM A. CHAPIN.""; ""TESTIMONY OF MESSRS. T. D. M. AND F. C. MACY.""; ""TESTIMONY OF A CLERGYMAN.""; ""OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED."" |
""OBJECTION I.�""SUCH CRUELTIES ARE INCREDIBLE.""""""OBJECTION. II.�'SLAVEHOLDERS PROTEST THAT THEY TREAT THEIR SLAVES WELL.'""; ""OBJECTION III.�'SLAVEHOLDERS ARE PROVERBIAL FOR THEIR KINDNESS, HOSPITALITY, BENEVOLENCE, AND GENEROSITY.'""; ""OBJECTION IV.�'NORTHERN VISITORS AT THE SOUTH TESTIFY THAT THE SLAVES ARE NOT CRUELLY TREATED.'""; ""OBJECTION V.�'IT IS FOR THE INTEREST OF THE MASTERS TO TREAT THEIR SLAVES WELL.'""; ""OBJECTION VI.�'THE FACT THAT THE SLAVES MULTIPLY SO RAPIDLY PROVES THAT THEY ARE NOT INHUMANLY TREATED, BUT ARE IN A COMFORTABLE CONDITION.'"" |
""OBJECTION VIII.�'PUBLIC OPINION IS A PROTECTION TO THE SLAVE.'""""INDEX."" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. It demonstrates how even prisoners - in the United States and in other countries - were significantly better fed than American slaves. |
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