American Slavery as It Is (Classic Reprint): Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses - Couverture souple

Theodore Dwight Weld

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ISBN 10 : 1440034680 ISBN 13 : 9781440034688

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

See the real faces of slavery through collected testimony and historic records.

This nonfiction work gathers firsthand accounts, letters, and testimonies about the lives of enslaved people across the United States. It presents the details—food, clothing, housing, work, and the abuses—alongside the motives and methods used to sustain slavery in slave states.

From the opening call for verified, well-authenticated facts to the organized sections of personal narratives and testimony, the book aims to document the human impact of slavery. The material is sourced from observers who lived in or studied slaveholding communities, offering concrete, often distressing, portraits of daily life, punishment, and social control.

• Accounts of daily life: meals, housing, clothing, and work expectations.
• Descriptions of punishments, supervision, and the system of control.
• Personal narratives and testimony from various figures and observers.
• Context for the broader abolition movement and its questions about human rights.

Ideal for readers seeking a historical, documentary perspective on the institution of slavery in America.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try 1 a plain ease and bring in an honest verdict. | The question at issue is not one of law, but of fact-" What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States 1" A plainer ease never went to a jury. Look at it. Twenty-seven hundred thousand persons in this country, men, women, and children, are in slavery. Is slavery, as a condition for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent ? We submit the question without argument. You have common Bense, and conscience, and a human heart;-pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister- make the ease your own, make it theire, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered--"Guilty ;" the same sentence has always been pronounced, "Let it be accursed;" and human n%-ture, with her million echoes, has rung it roun

Table of Contents

Introduction-7-10 Twenty-ssvcn hundred thousand free bom citizens of t'ie IT S in slavery, 7 : Tender mercies of slaveholders, 8: Abnm i nations of slavery, 9: Character of the testimony, 9-10; Personal Narratives-Part I pp 10-27; Narrative of Neiiemiah Caulkins, 102; North Carolina slaver)', II; Methodist preaching slnvedriver, Calloway, 12: Women at child-birth, 12: Slaves at labor, 12: Clothing of slaves, 13; Allowance of provisions, 13 ; Slave-fetters, 13 ; Cruelties to slaves, 13, 11, 15, Burying a slave alive, 15 ; Licentiousness of Slaveholder:*, 15, li»; Rev Thomas P Hunt, with his "hands tied," 16: Preacher* cringe to slavery, 15; Nakedness of hiaves, 1G; Slave-huts, 16; Means of subsistence for vhtves, 16, 17 ; Slaves' prayer, 17; Narrrattvb of Rkv Horace Moulton, 17 ; Labor of the slaves, 18 ; Tasks, 18 ; Whipping posts, 18 ; Food, H: House?, 19; Clothing 19; Punishments, 19, 20; Scenes of horror, 20; Con

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict. The question at issue is not one of law, but of fact - "What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States?" A plainer case never went to a jury. Look at it. Twenty-seven hundred thousand persons in this country, men, women, and children, are in slavery. Is slavery, as a condition for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent? We submit the question without argument. You have common sense, and conscience, and a human heart; - pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister - make the case your own, make it theirs, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered - "Guilty;" the same sentence has always been pronounced, "Let it be accursed;" and human nature, with her million echoes, has rung it round the world in every language under heaven, "Let it be accursed. Let it be accursed." His heart is false to human nature, who will not say "Amen." There is not a man on earth who does not believe that slavery is a curse. Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to herself. She has uttered her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten; and till it perishes amidst the execrations of the universe, she will traverse the world on its track, dealing her bolts upon its head, and dashing against it her condemning brand. We repeat it, every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Try him; clank the chains in his ears, and tell him they are for him. Give him an hour to prepare his wife and children for a life of slavery. Bid him make haste and get ready their necks for the yoke, and their wrists for the coffle chains, then look a...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440034680
• ISBN 13: 9781440034688
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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