American slavery as it is : testimony of a thousand witnesses / [compiled] by Theodore Dwight Weld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895.

Contributor:

American Anti-Slavery Society.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.

Series:

DocSouth Books edition.

A DocSouth Books edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.

Slavery--Southern States.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.)

Edition:

DocSouth Books ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book 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 appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. It demonstrates how even prisoners - in the United States and in other countries - were significantly better fed than American slaves.

Contents:

""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.""

Notes:

Includes index.

Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth) Project.

Originally published: New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.

ISBN:

9798890843234

9798890843241

9781469602875

1469602873

9780807869581

0807869589

OCLC:

769189701