Right way the safe way: proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere. Lydia Maria Francis Child.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Slavery--West Indies.

Transcendentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York: [publisher not identified], 1862.

Summary:

Regarding emancipation, Child writes, "Leaving the obvious considerations of justice and humanity entirely out of the question, I ask whether experience has not proved it to be a measure of plain, practical good sense, and sound policy... Free labor has so obviously the advantage, in all respects, over slave labor, that posterity will marvel to find in the history of the nineteenth century any record of a system so barbarous, so clumsy, and so wasteful."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.