Who Is to Blame?; Or, Cursory Review of "American Apology for American Accession to Negro Slavery." (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1842. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... very from the American soil impracticable for twenty years, and less practicable at the end of that period than it was before, they remitted to each separate State the exclusive power of dealing with the system of slavery within the limits of its own peculiar jurisdiction. What has been the consequence ? In the Northern States, where the inhabitants were never exposed to the temptations by which slavery was invited and extended in the South, --where the slaves were few, the white population numerous and rapidly increasing, and white labour at once easily procurable and fittest for the soil--there, where slavery reflected the greatest disgrace on the national name, afforded the least profit to the slave-owners, and injured the community by discrediting the occupation of free labourers, --a gradual abolition of slavery was brought to pass by laws which indulged the slave-owners with the choice of selling their negroes to the Southern planters, or of retaining their service for a limited period deemed sufficient for their own protection from pecuniary loss. In the Southern States, widely differenced from their northern sisters in all the circumstances which I have particularized, the number of slaves was progressively augmented by copious importations, and their bondage aggravated by laws restrict ing manumission, prohibiting negro education, and subjecting even freed men of colour to such privations and indignities as must repress the desire as well as the hope of freedom in the bosoms of the negro slaves. This last feature of Southern policy has been responsively copied in the manners and even in the laws of those Northern States within which slavery has ceased to exist, --where free persons of colour are sternly excluded from all social equality with the w