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- Frontmatter
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- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHAPTER THE NINTH - SLAVERY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
Summary
The upholders of slavery in America—of the atrocities of which system, I shall not write one word for which I have not ample proof and warrant —may be divided into three great classes.
The first, are those more moderate and rational owners of human cattle, who have come into the possession of them as so many coins in their trading capital, but who admit the frightful nature of the Institution in the abstract, and perceive the dangers to society with which it is fraught: dangers which however distant they may be, or howsoever tardy in their coming on, are as certain to fall upon its guilty head, as is the Day of Judgment.
The second, consists of all those owners, breeders, users, buyers and sellers of slaves, who will, until the bloody chapter has a bloody end, own, breed, use, buy, and sell them at all hazards; who doggedly deny the horrors of the system, in the teeth of such a mass of evidence as never was brought to bear on any other subject, and to which the experience of every day contributes its immense amount; who would at this or any other moment, gladly involve America in a war, civil, or foreign, provided that it had for its sole end and object the assertion of their right to perpetuate slavery, and to whip and work and torture slaves, unquestioned by any human authority, and unassailed by any human power; who, when they speak of Freedom, mean the Freedom to oppress their kind, and to be savage, merciless, and cruel; and of whom every man on his own ground, in republican America, is a more exacting, and a sterner, and a less responsible despot, than the Caliph Haroun Alraschid in his angry robe of scarlet.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 247 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009