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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. 53

TENDER MERCIES OF THE DOMESTIC INSTITUTION

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"The crying injustice and cruelty of slavery had frequently engaged my attention during the course of this journey; but never more than while I was in this place, where this oppressed race are very numerous, and frequently sold at auction like cattle.  At one of these sales, I was much affected in hearing a
young coloured man pleading his cause.  His aged father and mother, and his wife and child were all mounted upon a stage, so that they might be seen by the bidders, they being about to be sold.  The young man stepped forward, and stood by them; but was soon ordered down.  He said he wanted to be sold with
them; but was told that he could not, as it was a sale to satisfy a mortgage upon the others, in which he was not included.  He pleaded with very affecting and moving language, to show how hard it was to be separated from his family; but it was all to no purpose.  When he saw that his prayers were unheeded, and that the others would be sold without him, he burst into a flood of tears, and, in the anguish of his feelings, besought them rather to kill him; 'For,' said he, 'I would rather die than be separated from my family.  'Upon which he was dragged off the scaffold, and driven away.  The company went on bidding, apparently as unconcerned as though the auctioneer had been selling a sheep; while the screams and prayers of the aged parents and the bereaved wife, with her infant in her arms, went up to heaven in behalf of themselves, and especially for the poor young man who had been so inhumanly torn from them.  Besides these victims of cruel and unchristian avarice, there was a large number more confined in a cellar, who were brought out and sold to different purchasers.  Thus it is that near relatives are violently separated, never to see each other in this world!" —
Extract of a Letter received by Nathan Hinshaw, of Randolph County, Indiana, from a Correspondent in the South.


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 53.
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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