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LONDON.
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William Tweedie  337 Strand,
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1858
 

Leeds Anti-slavery Series, No. 70

THE SLAVE-TRADE IN COLUMBIA

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"YESTERDAY, a servant an came to my room, saying, a coloured woman wished to speak with me.  I asked the cause of her grief.  It was some time before she could so far compose her mind as to relate to me her misfortune.  She said her husband had just been sold to a slave-driver, and taken to the barracoons of Alexandria - that his purchaser was intending to take him to Alabama in two or three days - that she had four children at home.  At this point she burst into a loud expression of her grief.  Her sobbings were interrupted occasionally with exclamations of 'O, God!  O, my dear children!  O, my husband!'  Then, appealing to me, 'O, master, for God's sake, do try to get back the father of my babes!'
     "I learned that her husband went to work this morning in the barn, husking corn, without any suspicion of the fate that awaited him.  The slave-dealer and an assistant came and seized him, hurrying him off to the slave-pen in Alexandria.
     "The woman, hearing of it, followed him here on foot, and sought me in the vain hope that I should be able to assist her.  The day is the coldest known here for years; yet she has been exposed to the keen piercing winds, although thinly clad.  She had not seen her children since morning, when she left them without firewood. I endeavoured to soothe her feelings by expressing some faint hope that her husband might yet be redeemed - that I would make inquiry, and ascertain if I could find some one who would repurchase him, and permit him to remain in the district.  I reflected upon the barbarous law by which Congress has authorized and encouraged such crimes, inflicting such misery upon the down-trodden of God's poor.  I trembled for my country, when I reflected that God was just, and that his justice will not sleep for ever.  I asked myself the question, Will Heaven permit such wicked, barbarous cruelty to go unpunished?"
- Ashtabula Sentinel.


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 70
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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