The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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social intercourse, marriage and domestic ties, the system of torture
to which they are subjected, with its various modes; and _in detail_, their _intellectual_ and _moral_ condition. Great care should be observed in the statement of facts. Well-weighed testimony and well-authenticated facts; with a responsible name, the Committee earnestly desire and call for. Thousands of persons in the free states have ample knowledge on this subject, derived from their own observation in the midst of slavery. Will such hold their peace? That which maketh manifest is _light_; he who keepeth his candle under a bushel at such a time and in such a cause as this, _forges fetters for himself_, as well as for the slave. Let no one withhold his testimony because others have already testified to similar facts. The value of testimony is by no means to be measured by the _novelty_ of the horrors which it describes. _Corroborative_ testimony,--facts, similar to those established by the testimony of others,--is highly valuable. Who that can give it and has a heart of flesh, will refuse to the slave so small a boon? Communications may be addressed to Theodore D. Weld, 143 Nassau-street, New York. New York, May, 1839. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Twenty-seven hundred thousand free born citizens of the U.S. in slavery; Tender mercies of slaveholders; |
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