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Sought say. against tormentor. they shot12/12/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() In order that they may be furnished with the requisite materials, they invite all who have had personal knowledge of the condition of slaves in any of the states of this Union, to forward their testimony with their names and residences. fully setting forth the condition of American slaves. The Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, while tendering their grateful acknowledgments, in the name of American Abolitionists, and in behalf of the slave, to those who have furnished for this publication the result of their residence and travel in the slave states of this Union, announce their determination to publish, from time to time as they may have the materials and the funds, TRACTS, containing well authenticated facts, testimony, personal narratives, &c. A number of them, however, still reside in slave states -to publish their names would be, in most cases, to make them the victims of popular fury. The statements, not derived from the papers and other periodicals, letters, books, &c., published by slaveholders, have been furnished by individuals who have resided in slave states, many of whom are natives of those states, and have been slaveholders. Some of the extracts, however not being made with reference to this work, and before its publication was contemplated, are without date but this class of extracts is exceedingly small, probably not a thirtieth of the whole In all cases the name of the paper is given, and, with very few exceptions, the place and time, (year, month, and day) of publication. Nearly all of them, however have been preserved. The idea of preserving them on file for the inspection of the incredulous, and the curious, did not occur to us until after the preparation of the work was in a state of forwardness, in consequence of this, some of the papers cannot be recovered. We regret that all of the original papers are not in our possession. Those who think the atrocities, which they describe, incredible, are invited to call and read for themselves. Most of those papers will be deposited at the office of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 143 Nassau street, New-York City. Their testimony is taken, mainly, from recent newspapers, published in the slave states. That they should utter falsehoods, for the sake of proclaiming their own infamy, is not probable. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,Ī MAJORITY of the facts and testimony contained in this work rests upon the authority of SLAVEHOLDERS, whose names and residences are given to the public, as vouchers for the truth of their statements. Not in a SQUEAMISH EAR, but in listening to the story of human suffering and endeavoring 9.ĬONSIDERETH the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to know it."-PROV. The wicked abominations that they do!"-EZEKIEL, viii. Slaves - United States - Social conditions.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.African Americans - Social conditions.Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 #SOUGHT SAY. AGAINST TORMENTOR. THEY SHOT VERIFICATION#Verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. Left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. Left quotation marks are encoded as " and " Removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined toĮm dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as Inserted at the point of reference within paragraphs. Typographical errors have been preserved, and appear in red type. Punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. ![]() The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH W442 1839 (Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, OFFICE, No. (title page) American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Supported the electronic publication of this title. | Buy DocSouth Books American Slavery As It Is:įunding from the National Endowment for the Humanities ![]()
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