By publishing this book I have put my mite into the treasury. The expectation of displeasing all classes has not been unaccompanied with pain. But it has been strongly impressed upon my mind that it was a duty to fulfil this task; and worldly considerations should never stifle the voice of conscience.
the end.
INDEX.
- Adams, John, [109]
- Adams, J. Quincy, [109]
- Africa benighted by Slavery, [9]
- African Repository, Extracts from, [123], [133], [137]
- African Individuals of distinction, [157] to [167]
- Amalgamation, [132], [200]
- Ancient and Modern Slavery compared, [38]
- Anti-Slavery Society, [142]
- Appleton, Mr. [78]
- Baptism supposed to confer freedom, [58]
- Bible opposed to slavery, [32]
- Blood-hounds, [27]
- Brown, Moses, [98]
- Brodnax, Mr. [79]
- Capt. Riley, [73]
- Charles 5th, refused to sanction the slave-trade, [8]
- Child follows the condition of its mother, [40]
- Christianity abolished slavery, [58]
- Clay, Henry, [77], [136]
- Clothing of Slaves, [44]
- Code Noir, [46], [49], [54]
- Colonization, [123]
- Cruelties to Slaves, [17], [24], [26], [28]
- Devonshire, Duchess of, [215]
- Democracy of the North, [112]
- District of Columbia, [216]
- Duelling, [113]
- Dymond, Jonathan, [147]
- Eastern and Western Virginia, [119]
- Effect of Slavery on the Masters, [22]
- Egyptians, [149]
- Elizabeth of England tolerated the trade, [8]
- Emancipation safe, [87]
- English formerly sold to Irish, [58]
- Entailed upon us by England, [75]
- Ethiopians, [149]
- Everett, Alexander H. [176]
- Evidence of colored persons not admitted, [45], [48]
- Faulkner, Mr. [79]
- Female slaves unprotected, [23]
- Fierceness and pride induced by Slavery, [113]
- Food of Slaves, [44]
- French planter's ideas of religion for Slaves, [58]
- Free Labor, [76]
- Garrison, Mr. [209]
- Gentoo Code, [52]
- Gholson, Mr. [102]
- Grecian Slavery, [47], [53], [54], [56]
- Happiness of Slaves, [140]
- Hayne, Mr. [103]
- Hayti, [86], [121]
- Hebrews, [48], [52], [55]
- Helots, [47]
- Humanity of masters, how far a protection, [72]
- Indian treatment of Slaves, [46]
- Inequality of laws for offences, [60]
- Insurrections, [194]
- Intellect of Africans, [151], [170]
- Internal slave-trade, [33]
- Interest to treat slaves well, [30]
- Jefferson, Thomas, [22]
- Kenrick, John, [215]
- Kidnapping, [34], [65]
- Labor compulsory and uncompensated, [41]
- Lafayette, [97]
- Laws regulating labor, [43], [44]
- Laws obstruct emancipation, [54]
- Laws to perpetuate ignorance, [59], [67], [70]
- Laws against Free Colored People, [63]
- Louis 13th, [8]
- Marriages, laws concerning, [196]
- Martineau, Harriet, [83]
- Masters have absolute power to punish, [49]
- Miller, Gov. of S. Carolina, [103]
- Missouri Question, [120]
- Moral Character of Africans, [177]
- Moss, Mary and Helen, [24]
- New-England kept in check by jealousy of the Slave States, [114]
- North and South, [31]
- Ohio and Kentucky, [86]
- Offences punished in Slaves, [61]
- Park, Mungo, [177]
- Pauperism, comparative in West Indies, [90]
- Petitions, [216]
- Pinckney, Charles, [108]
- Political power of Slave States, [111]
- Portuguese, [7], [48], [54]
- Prejudice against color almost unknown in other countries, [135], [208]
- Prejudice cherished by Colonization, [133]
- Prejudice, instances of, [198] to [209]
- Quakers, [213]
- Religious privileges of Slaves, [57]
- Roane, Mr. [139]
- Roman Slaves, [47], [54], [55]
- Runaways, [62], [71]
- Sectional dislike, [121]
- Slave Trade, beginning of, [7]
- Slave Ship, description of, [12]
- Slave Trade, cruelties of, [17]
- Slave Trade defended in House of Commons, [19]
- Slave Trade sanctioned by Constitution of the United States for twenty years, [36]
- Slave cut in pieces, [26]
- Slave Codes, different degrees of mildness, [39]
- Slavery, hereditary and perpetual, [42]
- Slaves cannot own property, [46], [71]
- Slaves considered as chattels, [45]
- Slaves in Africa, [48]
- Slaves never allowed to resist, [52]
- Slaves in U. S. cannot redeem themselves, [53]
- Slaves unprotected in domestic relations, [54]
- Slave Representation, [105]
- Slavery veiled in the Constitution, [106]
- Son, who murdered his father to obtain freedom, [23]
- Southerners do not desire the abolition of Slavery, [100]
- Southerner, conversation with, [139]
- Spanish Slaves, [7], [48], [54], [56]
- St. Domingo, [86]
- Sutcliff's Travels, [81]
- Toussaint L'Ouverture, [166]
- Turkey, [56]
- Union, [119]
- Washington's Slaves, [96]
- Washington had doubts, [107]
- Wirt, William, [102]
- Wright, Gov. of Maryland, [106]
- Zhinga, [154]
Transcriber's Note
This ebook retains the spelling variations and inconsistencies of the original document. Where corrections to quotation marks seemed necessary, changes were made, as detailed below. However, quotation-mark usage in this text is variable. Some quoted passages have end-quotes after each paragraph; some after only the final paragraph quoted. This style matches that of the original document published in 1836.