This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...to gaze moodily on thine own shadow. A glance sufficed to reveal to the white man the character of the book, and he humbly begged to borrow it of Sherry, who smothering his love for its worn pages, unhesitatingly complied with the request. Sherry, be it understood, was a free man, and after waiting a reasonable number ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...to gaze moodily on thine own shadow. A glance sufficed to reveal to the white man the character of the book, and he humbly begged to borrow it of Sherry, who smothering his love for its worn pages, unhesitatingly complied with the request. Sherry, be it understood, was a free man, and after waiting a reasonable number of weeks, he went to the lawyer's office for his book. The pettifogger put him off to an hour which he named. Sherry went again and found himself in the power of the sheriff; his book, indeed, in his pocket, but manacles on his free hands. He was torn from wife and children and carried to Baltimore to be tried; for it is thus, O, Slavery, that thou dost protect thyself! Fifteen witnesses testified, upon the trial, that Sherry was honest, pious, industrious and content, --he had never been heard to complain, --was the last man in the world to create an excitement. In short, nothing could be proved against him, but the fact that such a hymn-book was in his possession. Weeping children and a heart-stricken wife surrounded him, but their tears flowed over cheeks of palest bronze, and so made no impression on the heart of a judge far darker and harder. The law had taken hold of him, and it would not retract. The statute under which he was convicted, sentences the colored man who shall be found with an incendiary publication in his possession, to an imprisonment in the penitentiary of not more than twenty nor less than ten years. In consideration of the evidence to character, adduced upon his trial, and in despite of the public excitement on the subject, poor Sherry was sentenced to ten. The pettifogger was satisfied, his angry client gained her cause, and the miserable family of the prisoner begged their way back to the "Shore." I have forg...
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