Category: History - American

The Anti-Slavery Record, Volume 1, No. 7

American Anti-Slavery Society· 2 chapters· 6,149 words

This man was arrested as a fugitive, by a Virginia planter, and imprisoned in Bridewell, where he remained eighteen months. The inmates of the prison knew him well, and they were always ready to speak a good word for Downing. After the planter had got his _legal_ right allowed...

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This man was arrested as a fugitive, by a Virginia planter, and imprisoned in Bridewell, where he remained eighteen months. The inmates of the prison knew him well, and they wer...

2. Part 2

“But we are told, ‘You at the north know nothing of slavery――why meddle with what you do not understand?’ Sir, we do know what slavery is. It is usurped authority――a system of l...