Slavery and four years of war

by Joseph Warren Keifer

The Nat Turner negro slave insurrection is the only one known to slavery in the United States. Others may possibly have been contemplated. The John Brown raid was not a negro insurrection. Even in the midst of the war (1861-65), believed by most slaves to be a war for their freedom, insurrections were unknown.(55)

The African race, the most wronged through the centuries, has been the most docile and the least revengeful of the races of the world.

(45) Confederate Con., Art. 1, Sec. 8, par. 1.

(46) The South in the days of slavery had, practically, no manufactories.

(47) Benton, Thirty Years' View, vol. i., p. 343.

(48) Rhodes, Hist. U. S., vol. i., pp. 49-50.

(49) January 26, 1830.

(50) For this report and history see Benton's Thirty Years' View, vol. i, pp. 580, etc.

(51) Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., chap. clxxxix.; Historical, etc. Examination, Dred Scott Case (Benton), p. 139.

(52) Historical, etc., Examination, Dred Scott Case (Benton), p. 141-4.