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FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
STROKES FOR FREEDOM

A Series of
ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS.

of which
HALF A MILLION.
ARE NOW FIRST ISSUED
by the
FRIENDS OF THE NEGRO

Wilson Armistead
'LAY THE AXE TO THE ROOT OF THE CORRUPT TREE."
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LONDON.
W. & E. Cash, 5 Bishopsgate St.
William Tweedie  337 Strand,
and may be had of all 'booksellers.
1858
 

Leeds Anti-slavery Series, No. 17

SALE OF AGED NEGROES.

"I was staying a few days at Winnsboro' South Carolina, and, on the sale day, had the curiosity to walk to the auction stand, where I saw an aged negro and his wife exposed for sale.  they were almost worn out with stripes and hard usage; and the woolly heads of both were nearly white.  The old negro was more than 70, his wife a year or two younger.  They were knocked down for 13 dollars. This sum appears, indeed, trifling as the price of two human beings; but the fact is, they would (commercially speaking) have been dear at a gift." - Report of an English Traveller.

     A WOMAN SOLD FOR A JACKASS. - "Mr. Moore, sometime ago, was a citizen of Todd County, Kentucky.  He was, and is sitll a local preacher in the M. E. Church, in good standing.  A short time before he left Todd County, he sold a woman for a jackass.  He then traded the jackass to Mr. J. H. Robins of Trigg County, Kentucky, for a house and some land in Woodford County, Illinois.  Moore told Robins that he gave a woman and a child for the jack; but when Robins inquired into the matter, he found that Moore traded on Saturday, and that the child was born on Monday afterwards!  So the child was sold for a jackass, before it was born, and by a professed preacher of the Gospel!! - Western Citizen.
     "A person informs the Christian people of St. Louis, that he will sell a superior Maltese Jack, and receive in payment goods or NEGROES!  Said Jack is said to be 14 hands high, and therefore, in the estimation of his owner, equivalent to several of God's living images.  'How much better is a man than a sheep?' asked he who lived and died for man.  How much better is an ass than a man?  asks the owner of the one, of the owner of the other, in the market of a Christian city."


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 17.
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends' Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
 

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