Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

by Beverley B. Munford

[62]	Virginian History of African Colonization, Slaughter, p. 48.

[63]	An Essay on Slavery, Thomas R. Dew, 1849, p. 6.

[64]	History of Slavery in Virginia, Ballagh, p. 138.

[65]	South Side View of Slavery, Adams, p. 127.

IX

The Northern Abolitionists and Their Reactionary

Influence upon Anti-Slavery Sentiment

in Virginia

Thomas Jefferson Randolph was the foremost advocate of gradual emancipation in the Virginia Legislature of 1832. In a pamphlet printed in 1870 reviewing political conditions in Virginia he makes the following statement with reference to the subject of emancipation and the influences which hindered its accomplishment after the year 1833: