The Slaveholder Abroad: Or, Billy Buck's Visit, with His Master, to England. A Series of Letters from Dr. Pleasant Jones [pseud.] to Major Joseph Jones, of GeorgiaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 - 500 páginas |
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The Slaveholder Abroad, Or, Billy Buck's Visit, with His Master, to England ... Pleasant Jones Vista de fragmentos - 1979 |
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Página 10 - We will not dwell on the ordinary topics — on the progress of civilization ; on the advance of freedom everywhere ; on the rights and requirements of the nineteenth century ; — but we appeal to you very seriously to reflect, and to ask counsel of God, how far such a state of things is in accordance with His holy word, the inalienable rights...
Página 10 - God, for the removal of this affliction from the Christian world. We do not say these things in a spirit of self-complacency, as though our nation were free from the guilt it perceives in others. We acknowledge with grief and shame our heavy share in this great sin. We acknowledge that our forefathers introduced, nay, compelled the adoption of slavery in those mighty colonies. We humbly confess it before Almighty God. And it is because we so deeply feel, and so unfeignedly avow our own complicity,...
Página 492 - Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life, shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed on a free white person, and on the like proof ; except in case of insurrection of such slave.
Página 476 - The most severe punishment required in the last forty years for a body of 500 negroes, at Hopeton, was for the theft of one negro from another. In that period there has been no criminal act of the highest grade, for which a delinquent could be committed to the penitentiary in Georgia, and there have been only six cases of assault and battery. As a race, the negroes are mild and forgiving, and by no means so prone to indulge in drinking as the white man or the Indian. There were more serious quarrels...
Página 438 - They are deprived in childhood of all instruction and all enjoyment ; of the sports in which childhood instinctively indulges, of fresh air by day and of natural sleep by night. Their health, physical and moral, is alike destroyed ; they die of diseases induced by unremitting...
Página 376 - Too early employment — too long employment — too much fatigue — no time for relaxation — no time for mental improvement — no time for the care of health — exhaustion — intemperance — indifferent food — sickness — premature decay — a large mortality.' "The same gentleman, in speaking of the laboring poor of the agricultural districts, says that, in his opinion, their state is not more favorable to the preservation of perfect life of body than that of the manufacturing poor. He...
Página 438 - Their health physical and moral is alike destroyed ; they die of diseases induced by unremitting task work, by confinement in the impure atmosphere of crowded rooms, by the particles of metallic or vegetable dust which they are continually inhaling; or they live to grow up without decency, without comfort, and without hope, without morals, without religion, and without shame, and bring forth slaves like themselves to tread in the same path of misery.
Página 10 - ... seriously to reflect and to ask counsel of God how far such a state of things is in accordance with His Holy Word, the inalienable rights of immortal souls, and the pure and merciful spirit of the Christian religion. We do not shut our eyes to the difficulties, nay, the dangers, that might beset the immediate abolition of that long-established system. We see and admit the necessity of preparation for so great an event...
Página 500 - ... cared for, and the young protected and reared, are indisputable facts. Interest joins with affection in promoting this unity of feeling. To the negro, it insures food, fuel, and clothing, medical attendance, and in most cases religious instruction. The young child is seldom removed from the parent's protection, and beyond doubt, the institution prevents the separation of families, to an extent unknown among the laboring poor of the world.
Página 10 - A common origin, a common faith, and, we sincerely believe, a common cause, urge us at the present moment to address you on the subject of that system of negro slavery which still prevails so extensively, and even under kindly-disposed masters, with such frightful results, in many of the vast regions of the western world.