The Abolitionist.., 第 1 卷，第 2 期S. Bagster, Jun., 1834 |
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第 75 頁 - May, 1820, and that, from and after that period, it shall not be lawful for any of the subjects of the crown of Spain to purchase slaves, or to carry on the slave trade, on any part of the coast of Africa, upon any pretext or in any manner whatever...
第 95 頁 - TAPPAN. 13& up beautiful, elegant, and much accomplished. Dying, he willed his heir, her brother, to provide for her handsomely, and make her free. But her brother was a slave-master, and she was a slave. He kept and debauched her. It would be unlawful even to speak of such things, were it not taking the part of tyrants to conceal them. At the end of four or five years he got tired of her, and that notorious slave-dealer, Woolfolk, coming down to collect a drove, he sold his sister to him. "There...
第 96 頁 - There is her cottage," said he to Woolfolk ; " she is a violent woman. I don't like to go near her ; go and carry her off by yourself" Woolfolk strode into the cottage, told her the fact, and ordered her to prepare. She was dreadfully agitated. He urged her to hasten. She rose and said, " White man, I don't believe you. I don't believe that my brother would thus sell me and his children. I will not believe unless he come himself.
第 94 頁 - Massa," feebly screamed the perishing slave. But what was prayer to the slave-master ! Uncurbed despotism was afloat — who can utter its horrors ? The sufferer's cries became more and more feeble, even the convulsions of his quivering flesh subsided — he felt no more ; but the tyrant was inflamed with new rage at the passiveness of his object, and swore and drove the lash with more vengeful nerve ; but in vain. The spirit had returned to Him who gave it — the voice was silent, and the flesh...
第 60 頁 - ... friends fulfilled, and their pledge honorably redeemed. A whole people, comprising thirty thousand souls, have passed from slavery into freedom, not only without the slightest irregularity, but with the solemn and decorous tranquillity of a Sabbath.
第 84 頁 - ... and, on a moderate calculation, will perform more work ; during that time, than two slaves.
第 101 頁 - AUCTION. < ing another crawfish, with whatever attractions the skill of the cook may have invested it. There are slave auctions almost every day in the New Orleans Exchange. I was frequently present at these, and the man who wants an excuse for misanthropy, will nowhere discover better reason for hating and despising his species. The usual process differs in nothing from that of selling a horse. The poor object of traffic is mounted on a table ; intending purchasers examine his points, and put questions...
第 62 頁 - ... A week has nearly elapsed; and although all eyes and ears are open, and reports spread rapidly, we have not heard of a single act of insolence, insubordination, or violence, committed by any one of them, under false and licentious notions of freedom.
第 100 頁 - The cultivation of sugar in Louisiana', commented Hamilton, 'is carried on at an enormous expense of human life. Planters must buy to keep up their stock, and this supply principally comes from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina'. Frances Trollope, a committed abolitionist, claimed that 'to be sent south and sold [was] the dread of all the slaves north of Louisiana'.
第 51 頁 - ... was before intimated to be a meeting of devout acknowledgment to God for the great boon the principal part of my sable congregation had that day received; and never shall I forget my feelings when I saw them for the first time in my life standing before me in all the consciousness of freedom. It seemed as though I was in a new world, or surrounded by a new order of beings. The downcast eye, the gloomy countenance, and, strange as it may seem, even the vacant, unintellectual physiognomy had vanished....