AMERICAN SLAVERY AND COLOUR דיכי BY WILLIAM CHAMBERS AUTHOR OF 'THINGS AS THEY ARE IN AMERICA' + LONDON W. & R. CHAMBERS, PATERNOSTER ROW AND DIX AND EDWARDS, NEW YORK 1857 NOR 20JUN 34 THE sight of a few Slave Sales has a wonderful effect in awakening the feelings on the subject of Slavery. The thing is seen to be an undeniable reality-no mere invention of the novelist. From time to time, the spectacle of an auction-stand on which one man is selling another, flashes back upon the mind. For three years, I have been haunted by recollections of that saddening scene, and taken a gradually deepening interest in American Slavery -its present condition, its mysterious future. Having already referred to the subject, I should not again have intruded on public notice, but for the recent exciting discussions concerning Slavery, the protracted struggle in Kansas, and the probability of further contests between Slavery and Freedom, consequent on the organisation of new States in the southern section of the Union. The present volume, tracing the progress of Slavery, and presenting such other particulars as may afford a comprehensive view of the subject, is offered as a small contribution to a department of literature daily increasing in interest-an expression of sympathy from an unenrolled adherent of a great and sacred cause. EDINBURGH, March 1857. W. C. |