Give us a few more such men in America, and slavery will soon be
numbered among the things that were. A few men who will not only have
the moral courage to aim the severing blow at the chattel relation
between master and slave, without parley, palliation or compromise; but
who have also the christian fidelity to brave public scorn and
contumely, to seize a coloured man by the hand, and elevate him to the
position from whence the avarice and oppression of the whites have
degraded him. These men have the right view of the subject. They see
that in every case where the relation between master and slave is
broken, slavery is weakened, and that every coloured man elevated,
becomes a step in the ladder upon which his whole people are to ascend.
They would not have us accept of some modified form of liberty, while
the old mischief working chattel relation remains unbroken, untouched
and unabrogated.

J.W.C. PENNINGTON.

_13, Princes Square, London, August 15th_, 1849.




CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

My birth and parentage--The treatment of Slaves generally in Maryland 1

CHAPTER II.