Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America; Being Replies to Questions Transmitted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 3 (Paperback)

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. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...church, but who was in poor health, was accustomed to flog some of her female domestics with a raw hide till she was exhausted, and then go and lie down till her strength was recruited, rising again and resuming the flagellation. This she considered as not at all derogatory to her Christian character.' ' "Mr. Joel S. Bingham, of Cornwall, Vermont, lately a student in Middlebury college, and a member of the Congregational church, spent a few weeks in Kentucky, in the summer of 1838. He relates the following occurrence which took place in the neighbourhood where he resided, and was a matter of perfect notoriety in the vicinity: " 'Rev. Mr. Lewis, a Baptist minister in the vicinity of Frankfort, Ky. had a slave that ran away, but was retaken and brought back to his master, who threatened him with punishment for making an attempt to escape. Though terrified, the slave immediately attempted to run away again. Mr. L. commanded him to stop, but he did not obey. Mr. L. then took a gun, loaded with small shot, and fired at the slave, who fell, but was not killed, and afterwards recovered. Mr. L. did not probably intend to kill the slave, as it was his legs which were aimed at and received the contents of the gun.-The master asserted that he was driven to this necessity to maintain his authority. This took place about the first of July, 1838.'. "The following is given upon.the authority of Rev. Orange Scott, of Lowell, Mass., for many years a presiding elder in the Methodist Episco-pal church: " 'Rev. Joseph Hough, a Baptist minister, formerly of Springfield, Mass., now of Plainfield, N. H., while travelling in the south, a few years ago, put up one night with a Methodist family, and spent the sabbath...