This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...testimony against an institution which requires such means for its support." Extracts from letters will enable us yet more fully to see how the sad experiences of this winter wrought upon Dr. Channing's mind. " St. Croix, January 15, 1831. The negroes have what are called the comforts of life, that is, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...testimony against an institution which requires such means for its support." Extracts from letters will enable us yet more fully to see how the sad experiences of this winter wrought upon Dr. Channing's mind. " St. Croix, January 15, 1831. The negroes have what are called the comforts of life, that is, food and lodging of a better quality than the peasantry of Europe generally enjoy. Nor are they, perhaps, as much overworked. They certainly accomplish less, and bear no marks of the emaciation so often produced by care and toil in our own country. The misery is, that their condition dooms them, generation after generation, to a merely animal and unimproving existence, and does as much as can be done to extinguish their intellectual and moral nature. They are, of course, given up to low vices, though the word vicious can hardly be applied to them more properly than to the horse, so destitute are they of moral ideas. These vices, joined to their brutal ignorance, entail on them, as you would expect, great physical suffering, so that, notwithstanding their comforts, they cannot keep up their numbers. It is wonderful that the owners do not see that their own interest requires them to cultivate the rational and moral faculties of the slaves. Not only is the negro population decreasing through ignorance and vice, but the loss of property, from the utter want of moral principle among them, is greater than you can imagine. This 1 see continually, but this does not absorb me. I do not blame the slaveholder alone. I blame the prosperous classes of society everywhere, who are leaving not a few around them to live and die in a darkness and vice little inferior to those of the slaves." " St. Croix, January 20, 1831. This island...
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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. No date; cloth bound; gilt text on spine; blind stamping; edges scruffed; spine splitting; clean text; Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
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