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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. 54

CONVERSATION ON SLAVERY,
BETWEEN A LADY IN SCOTLAND, AND A RELATIVE OF HERS, WHO HAD LATELY RETURNED FROM BALTIMORE

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ON the subject of slavery being mentioned, the American lady became greatly excited.  She said she had one slave, and noting should induce her to give him up.  He was very well off.  "Did you ever see a slave beaten?" asked her friend.  "O!  very frequently; I often do it myself.  I just take my shoe whenever I need it.  But the slaves are better off than the servants of this country."  "O, you are mistaken," rejoined the lady; "if a mistress strike a servant, she may appeal to a magistrate, and generally has the verdict in her favour.  Them mistress has no such power over her servant."  "Poor things! how I pity them, then, not to be able to do as they please with their servants."  The name of Frederick Douglass being mentioned, the American lady exclaimed against him in the most violent language, saying, if she had him in Baltimore, he should be tarred and feathered.  And on a remonstrance being made, she remarked to her relative. "And you would be tarred and feathered too, if you were in the slave states."
     Thus the sensibilities are blunted, and the mind is vitiated by the poisonous contamination of slavery.  Another instance of these effects was exhibited in the conduct of the little daughter of this lady, a child of the seven years old.  She was on a visit to her cousin, who had a favourite canary, which hopped in and out of its cage with the greatest familiarity.  One day, this canary came to near the little visitor, who seized it, and with savage pleasure, held it in a tub of water with its head downwards, till the life of the pretty little pet was extinct; and then, upon being questioned, she laughingly, related the occurrence, as if something clever had been done. - Such are the hardening effects of slavery, upon even a young and tender mind!


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 54.
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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