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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...witnessed the unwise provocation on the part of impudent negroes and the continued series of graver crimes, robberies, burglaries, murders, and assaults; it is not difficult to understand how some sudden happening, or some act of exceptional atrocity, could cause wild outbursts of " NUes's Register, XLVI, 441. ...
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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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...witnessed the unwise provocation on the part of impudent negroes and the continued series of graver crimes, robberies, burglaries, murders, and assaults; it is not difficult to understand how some sudden happening, or some act of exceptional atrocity, could cause wild outbursts of " NUes's Register, XLVI, 441. Niles thought "This is going a 'considerable length.'" n " Twenty years ago the poor man had no hesitation in placing his daughter in a respectable family as a servant;... The fashion became general to have colored servants. They could be obtained at lower wages, and the white girl, who had respect for herself, could not put herself on an equality with colored servants: few places were left where white girls could be employed. Unable to get employment as servants, the needle is the next resort; so many are thrown on that means of subsistence that prices are reduced; even here colored females, to a limited extent, enter into competition." Dr. Burden, Remarks (1838), 10., a Cf. (Harrisburg) Key Stone, June 10, 1851. passion such as were witnessed in Philadelphia and elsewhere in the years from 1832 to 1849. The first negro riot in Philadelphia occurred in 1834. Previous to that time there had been occasional disturbances between negroes and white men, TM but in that year many signs foreboded graver trouble. At this time "abolitionism" had awakened extreme wrath in all the Middle States, and the slightest provocation, in some instances the mere sight of a negro, had been sufficient to bring about an explosion in the Eastern cities. During July there was a disturbance at Newark, and a terrible riot at New York." These events had been seized upon by the Philadelphia papers, which solemnly warned abolitionists not to come to the city, and at the...
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