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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. 68

BLASTING INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY
ON THE SOCIAL CIRCLE

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"A FUGITIVE slave mentioned some harrowing stories of slaves being sold to go to the south.  One woman was told by a slave-dealer who lived near her, that he had bought her; she said 'Have you bought my husband?'  'No.'  'Have you bought my children?'  'No.'  She said no more, but went into the court-yard, took an axe, and with her right hand chopped off her left.  She then returned into the house as if nothing had happened, and told her purchaser she was ready to go; but a one-handed slave being of little value, she was left with her children.
     "Another slave, with whom the lecturer said he was well acquainted, had been brought up as a house-servant, in close intimacy with a little boy, his mistress's son.  His mistress sold him to a slave-dealer.  The little boy went down into the kitchen, and told Jim that his mamma had just sold him.  He instantly went up to the drawing-room, to know if it were true.  His mistress told him that it was, and that he must go.  Jim went back into the kitchen; and rather than be forced from his wife and children, to toil in the southern cotton fields, he took a knife, cut his own throat, and died on the spot.
     "Washington, the capital of American freedom, is the great slave-mart of the Union; and sales of human beings are of almost daily occurrence.  Sometimes, he said, a mother would be sold in a separate lot from her children.  Her purchaser would turn to the seller and say, 'Sir, I cannot force the children away, they cling so together.  'In such cases, he said, a few blows with the butt-end of the driver's whip would very soon force them asunder, to meet no more."  - Northville, Cayuga County, 31st of 5th mo., 1846.


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 68
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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