American Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
Title:
American Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
Author:
Weld, Theodore Dwight.
ISBN:
9781469602875
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (552 pages)
Contents:
About This Edition -- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. -- NOTE. -- CONTENTS. -- INTRODUCTION. -- PERSONAL NARRATIVES. -- NARRATIVE OF MR. CAULKINS. -- NARRATIVE AND TESTIMONY OF REV. HORACE MOULTON. -- NARRATIVE AND TESTIMONY OF SARAH M. GRIMKÉ. -- TESTIMONY OF THE LATE REV. JOHN GRAHAM, -- TESTIMONY OF MR. WILLIAM POE. -- PRIVATIONS OF THE SLAVES. -- I. FOOD. -- II. LABOR. THE SLAVES ARE OVERWORKED. -- III. CLOTHING. -- IV. DWELLINGS. THE SLAVES ARE WRETCHEDLY SHELTERED AND LODGED. -- 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 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.
Abstract:
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is 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 day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. The author describes the food, hours of labor, clothing, dwellings, and inflictions, showing the appalling conditions under which slaves and runaways suffered. He demonstrates how even prisoners-in the United States and in other countries-were significantly better fed than American slaves. Readers will find one of the most meticulous records of slave life available in this text. Unlike personal slave narratives, which focus on a single man or woman's experience, American Slavery details the overall conditions of slaves across multiple states and several years.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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