THE SLAVE MARKET: From the Berean.
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THE SLAVE MARKET: From the Berean.
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THE SLAVE MARKET
In the following article, the principle, long contended for in this work, is clearly and distinctly embraced. The slave market must be abolished, or the "slave trade" can NEVER be destroyed. It is also equally true that, were the cotton and sugar purchasers to confine their dealings to articles which are the exclusive production of free labour, the system of slavery itself would soon be done away.
From the Berean.
We some time ago published extracts from a pamphlet on West India Slavery, wherein the disuse of West India produce is ably advocated as an efficient means of putting an end to the evil. The following extract of a letter from "an intelligent planter of South Carolina," lately published in the "National Gazette," may serve to show that the disuse of cotton and rice, would be equally effectual in abolishing American slavery. The subject is well worth the attention of the christian, the philanthropist and the patriot. There never will be an end to the slave-trade, whilst a market is to be found for slaves. Those who bear a testimony against war, offensive and defensive, must have their minds forcibly arrested by a remedy for slavery and the slave trade, so pacific and so entirely consistent with their principles. Frequent appeals have been made to government, on the subject of the slave trade, and a murderous naval force has been sent out; force has been opposed to force; and the ocean stained with blood. Do the friends of peace perceive no objection to the use of such means, which after all, can only lop off the branches of the corrupt tree?--Will they not prefer a course, which, whilst it violates no principle, human or divine, strikes at the very root of the evil?
The extract, &c.--"The commercial and agricultural interests, of this section of the Union, are in a very prosperous condition. Slaves have taken a great rise, ALONG WITH COTTON AND RICE, The value of prime negro labourers is almost as great as it was ten years ago. The resolutions of Mr. King and Mr. Tucker, offered to Congress, are considered here as nearly chimerical. As LONG AS THE SOUTHERN ARTICLES OF PRODUCE SHALL COMMAND A GOOD PRICE, NEGRO SLAVES WILL NOT ONLY BE VALUABLE, BUT NECESSARY TO THEIR OWNERS."
Now let the consumers of "southern articles of produce," who profess to be the friends of injured Africa, "bind these words for a sign" upon their hands, and let them be as frontlets between their eyes--when they walk by the way, when they lie down, and when they rise up, let them "talk of them:" but especially let them "talk of them," when they sit in their stores, and when at the festive board.
In the following article, the principle, long contended for in this work, is clearly and distinctly embraced. The slave market must be abolished, or the "slave trade" can NEVER be destroyed. It is also equally true that, were the cotton and sugar purchasers to confine their dealings to articles which are the exclusive production of free labour, the system of slavery itself would soon be done away.
From the Berean.
We some time ago published extracts from a pamphlet on West India Slavery, wherein the disuse of West India produce is ably advocated as an efficient means of putting an end to the evil. The following extract of a letter from "an intelligent planter of South Carolina," lately published in the "National Gazette," may serve to show that the disuse of cotton and rice, would be equally effectual in abolishing American slavery. The subject is well worth the attention of the christian, the philanthropist and the patriot. There never will be an end to the slave-trade, whilst a market is to be found for slaves. Those who bear a testimony against war, offensive and defensive, must have their minds forcibly arrested by a remedy for slavery and the slave trade, so pacific and so entirely consistent with their principles. Frequent appeals have been made to government, on the subject of the slave trade, and a murderous naval force has been sent out; force has been opposed to force; and the ocean stained with blood. Do the friends of peace perceive no objection to the use of such means, which after all, can only lop off the branches of the corrupt tree?--Will they not prefer a course, which, whilst it violates no principle, human or divine, strikes at the very root of the evil?
The extract, &c.--"The commercial and agricultural interests, of this section of the Union, are in a very prosperous condition. Slaves have taken a great rise, ALONG WITH COTTON AND RICE, The value of prime negro labourers is almost as great as it was ten years ago. The resolutions of Mr. King and Mr. Tucker, offered to Congress, are considered here as nearly chimerical. As LONG AS THE SOUTHERN ARTICLES OF PRODUCE SHALL COMMAND A GOOD PRICE, NEGRO SLAVES WILL NOT ONLY BE VALUABLE, BUT NECESSARY TO THEIR OWNERS."
Now let the consumers of "southern articles of produce," who profess to be the friends of injured Africa, "bind these words for a sign" upon their hands, and let them be as frontlets between their eyes--when they walk by the way, when they lie down, and when they rise up, let them "talk of them:" but especially let them "talk of them," when they sit in their stores, and when at the festive board.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation 4:9, p. 136
Date
6.1825
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