INTRODUCTION.-7-10

Twenty-seven hundred thousand free born citizens of

the U. S. in slavery, 7: Tender mercies of slaveholders, 8:

Abominations of slavery, 9: Character of the testimo.

ny, 9-10.

PERSONAL NARRATIVES-PART I. pp. 10-27.

NARRATIVE OF NEHEMIAH CAULKINS, 102; North

Carolina slavery, 11; Methodist preaching slavedriver,

Galloway, 12: Women at child-birth, 12: Slaves

at labor, 12: Clothing of slaves, 18; Allowance of

provisions, 13; Slave-fetters, 13; Cruelties to slaves, 13,

14, 15, Burying a slave alive, 15; Licentiousness of Slave-

holders, 15, 16; Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, with his " hands

tied," 16; Preachers' cringe to slavery, 15; Nakedness of

slaves, 16; Slave-huts, 16; Means of subsistence for
slaves, 16, 17; Slaves' prayer, 17

NARRRATIVE OF REV. HORACE MOULTON, 17; Labor

of the slaves, 18; Tasks, 18; Whipping posts, 18; Food,

18; Houses, 19; Clothing, 19; Punishments, 19, 20;

Scenes of horror, 20; Constables, savage and brutal, 20;

Patrols, 20; Cruelties at night, 20, 21; Paddle-torturing,

20; Cat-hauling, 21; Branding with hot iron, 21; Murder

with impunity, 21; Iron collars, yokes, clogs, and bells, 21.
NARRATIVE OF SARAH M. GRIMKE, 22; Barbarous Treat-

ment of slaves, 22; Converted slave, 22; Professor of reli-

gion, near death, tortured his slave for visiting his com-

panion, 33; Counterpart of James Williams' description of

Larrimore's wife, 23; Head of runaway slave on a pole,

23; Governor of North Carolina left his sick slave to per-

ish, 23; Cruelty to Women slaves, 34; Christian slave a

Kmartyr for Jesus, 24.

TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN GRAHAM, 55; Twenty-seven

slaves whipped, 26.

TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM Рок, 26; Harris whipped a

girl to death, 26; Captain of the U. S. Navy murdered

his boy, was tried and acquitted, 26; Overseer burut a

slave, 26; Cruelties to slaves, 26

PRIVATIONS OF THE SLAVES, pp. 27, 44,

FOOD, 28-31; Suffering from hunger, 28; Rations in

the U. S. Army, &c, 32; Prison rations, 33-34; Testimo-

ny, 34, 35; LABOR, 35; Slaves are overworked, 35; Wit-

nesses, 35, 36; Henry Clay, 37; Child-bearing, preventel,

37; Dr. Channing, 38; Sacrifice of a set of hands cvery

seven years, 38; Testimony, 39; Laws of Georgia, Louis-

Jana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, 39;

CLOTHING, 40; Witnesses, 40, 41; Advertisements,

41; Testimony, 41; Field-hands, 41; Nudity of slaves,

42; John Randolph's legacy to Essex and Hetty, 42;

DWELLINGS, 42; Witnesses, 43; Slaves are wretchedly

sheltered and lodged, 43; TREATMENT OF THE

SICK, 44.

PERSONAL NARRATIVES, PART II, pp 45-57.

TESTIMONY OF THE REV. WILLIAM T. ALLAN. 45;

Woman delivered of a dead chiid, being whipped, 46;

Slaves shot by Hilton, 46; Cruelties to slaves, 46; Whip-

ping post, 46; Assaults, and maimings, 46, 47; Mur-

ders, 47; Puryear, "the Devil," 47; Overseers always

armed, 44; Licentiousness of Overseers, 47; "Bend your

backs," 47; Mrs. H., a Presbyterian, desirous to cut Arthur

Tappan's throat, 47; Clothing, Huts, and Herding of

slaves, 47; Iron yokes with prongs, 47; Marriage un-

known among slaves, 46; Presbyterian minister at Hunts-

ville, 47; Concubinage in Preacher's house, 47; Slavery,

the great wrong, 47.

NARRATIVE OF WILLIAM LEFTWICH, 48, 49; Slave's life,

58, 49.

TESTIMONY OF LEMUEL SAPINGTON, 49; Nakedness of

slaves, 49; Traffic in slaves, 49.

TESTIMONY OF MRS. LOWRY, 50; Long, a professor of

religion killed three men, 50; Salt water applied to

wounds to keep them from putrefaction, 50.

TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM C. GILDERSLEEVE, 50; Actse f

cruelty, 50.

TESTIMONY OF HIRAM WHITE, 51; Woman with a child

chained to her neck, 51; Amalgamation, and mulatto

children, 51.

TESTIMONY OF JOHN M. NELSON, 51; Rev. Conrad

Speece influenced Alexander Nelson when dying not to

emancipate his slaves, 52 ; George Bourne opposed slavery in

1810, 52.

TESTIMONY OF ANGELINA GRIMKE WELD, 52; House-
servants, 52; Slave-driving female professors of religion at
Charleston, S. C., 53; Whipping women and prayer in the

same room, 53; Tread-mills, 53; Slaveholding religion,

54; Slave-driving mistress prayed for the divine blessing

upon her whipping of an aged woman, 54; Girl killed with

impunity, 54; Jewish law, 54; Barbarities, 54; Medical

attendance upon slaves, 55; Young man beaten to epilepsy

and insanity, 55; Mistresses flog their slaves, 55; Blood-
bought luxuries, 55; Borrowing of slaves, 55; Meals of

slaves, 55; All Comfort of slaves disregarded, 56; Severance

of companion lovers, 56; Separation of parents and children,

56; Slave espionage, 57; Sufferings of slaves, 57; Horrors

of slavery indescribable, 56.

TESTIMONY OF CRUELTY INFLICTED UPON SLAVES, 57;

Colonization Society, 60; Emancipation Society of North

Carolina, 60; Kentucky, 61.

PUNISHMENTS, 62-72; Floggings, 62; Witnesses and

Testimony, 62, 63.

SLAVE DRIVING, 69; Droves of slaves, 70.

CRUELTY TO SLAVES, 70; Slaves like Stock without a

shelter, 71; "Six pound paddle," 71.

TORTURES OF SLAVES' Iron collars, chains, fetters, and

hand-cuffs, 72-76: Advertisements for fugitive slaves, 73:

Testimony, 72, 73: Iron head-frame, 76: Chain coffles,

76; Droves of human cattle,' 76: Washington, the Na

tional s'ave market, 70: Testimony of James K. Pauld-

ing, Secretary of the Navy; Literary fraud and pretended

prophecy by Mr. Paulding, 77: Brandings, Maimings, and

Gun-shot wounds, 87: Witnesses and Testimony, 77-82:

Mr. Sevier, senator of the U. S. 79: Judge Hitchcock, of

Mobile, 79: Commendable fidelity to truth in the advertise-

ments of slaveholders, 82: Thomas Aylethorpe cut off a

slave's ear, and sent it to Lewis Tappan, 98: Advertise-

mants for runaway slaves with their teeth muti-

lated, 83, 84; Excessive cruelty to slaves, 85: Slaves

burned alive, 86: Mr. Turner, a slave-butcher, 87:

Slaves roasted and flogged, 87: Cruelties common, 88:

Fugitive slaves, 88: Slaves forced to eat tobacco worms,

88: Baptist Christians escaping from slavery, 88; Chris-

tian whipped for praying, 88: James K. Paulding's testi-

mony, 89: Slave driven to death, 89: Coroner's inquest on

Harvey's murdered female slave, 89: Man-stealing en-

couraged by law, 90: Trial for a murdered slave, 90: Fe

male slave whipped to death, and during the torture deliv-

ered of a dead infant, 90: Slaves murdered, 90, 91, 92:

Slave driven to death, 92: Slaves killed with impunity,

92: George, a slave, chopped piece-meal, and burnt by

Lilburn Lewis, 92; Retributive justice in the awful death

of Lilburn Lewis, 94: Trial of Isham Lewis, a slave mur-

derer, 94.

good, bad, or indifferent? We submit the question without argument. You have common sense, and conscience, and a human heart;-pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister make the case your own, make it theirs, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered-"Guilty;" the same sentence has always been pronounced, "Let it be accursed;" and human nature, with her million echoes, has rung it round the world in every language under heaven, "Let it be accursed. Let it be accursed." His heart is false to human nature, who will not say "Amen." There is not a man on earth who does not believe that slavery is a curse. Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to herself. She has uttered her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten; and till it perishes amidst the execrations of the universe, she will traverse the world on its track, dealing her bolts upon its head, and dashing against it her condemning brand. We repeat it, every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Try him; clank the chains in his ears, and tell him they are for him. Give him an hour to prepare his wife and children for a life of slavery. Bid him make haste and get ready their necks for the yoke, and their wrists for the coffle chains, then look at his pale lips and trembling knees, and you have nature's testimony against slavery.

monstrous injustice and cruelty? Now, every body knows that the slaveholders do these things to the slaves every day, and yet it is stoutly affirmed that they treat them well and kindly, and that their tender regard for their slaves restrains the masters from inflicting cruelties upon them. We shall go into no metaphysics to show the absurdity of this pretence. The man who robs you every day, is, forsooth, quite too tenderhearted ever to cuff or kick you! True, he can snatch your money, but he does it gently lest he should hurt you. He can empty your pockets without qualms, but if your stomach is empty, it cuts him to the quick. He can make you work a life time without pay, but loves you too well to let you go hungry. He fleeces you of your rights with a relish, but is shocked if you work bareheaded in summer, or in winter without warm stockings. He can make you go without your liberty, but never without a shirt. He can crush, in you, all hope of bettering your condition, by vowing that you shall die his slave, but though he can coolly torture your feelings, he is too compassionate to lacerate your back-he can break your heart, but he is very tender of your skin. He can strip you of all protection and thus expose you to all outrages, but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels! What! slaveholders talk of treating men well, and yet not only rob them of all they get, and as fast as they get it, but rob them of themselves, also; their very hands and feet, all their muscles, and limbs, and senses, their bodies and minds, their time and liberty and earnings, their free speech and rights of conscience, their right to acquire knowledge, and property, and reputation; and yet they, who plunder them of all these, would fain make us believe that their soft hearts ooze out so lovingly toward their slaves that they always keep them well housed and well clad, never push them too hard in the field, never make their dear backs smart, nor let their dear stomachs get empty.

But there is no end to these absurdities. Are slaveholders dunces, or do they take all the rest of the world to be, that they think to bandage our eyes with such thin gauzes? Protesting their kind regard for those whom they hourly plunder of all they have and all they get! What! when they have seized their victims, and annihilated all their rights, still claim to be the special guardians of their happiness! Plunderers of their liberty, yet the careful suppliers of their wants? Robbers of their earnings, yet watchful sentinels round their interests, and kind providers of their comforts? Filching all their time, yet granting generous donations for rest and sleep? Stealing the use of their muscles, yet thoughtful of their ease? Putting them under driv. ers, yet careful that they are not hard-pushed? Too humane forsooth to stint the stomachs of their slaves, yet force their minds to starve, and brandish over them pains and penalties, if they dare to reach forth for the smallest crumb of knowledge, even a letter of the alphabet!

It is no marvel that slaveholders are always talking of their kind treatment of their slaves. The only marvel is, that men of sense can be gulled by such professions. Despots always insist that they are merciful. The greatest tyrants that ever dripped with blood have assumed the titles of "most gracious," "most clement," "most merciful," &c., and have ordered their crouching vassals to accost them thus. When did not vice lay claim to those virtues which are the opposites of its habitual crimes? The guilty, according to their own showing, are always innocent, and cowards brave, and drunkards sober, and harlots chaste, and pickpockets honest to a fault. Every body understands this. When a man's tongue grows thick, and he begins to hiccough and walk cross-legged, we expect him, as a matter of course, to protest that he is not drunk; so when a man is always singing the praises of his own honesty, we instinctively watch his movements and look out for our pocket-books. Whoever is simple enough to be hoaxed by such professions, should never be trusted in the streets without somebody to take care of him. Human nature works out in slaveholders just as it does in other men, and in American slaveholders just as in English, French, Turkish, Algerine, Roman and Grecian. The Spartans boasted of their kindness to their slaves, while they whipped them to death by thousands at

the altars of their gods. The Romans lauded their own mild treatment of their bondmen, while they branded their names on their flesh with hot irons, and when old, threw them into their fish ponds, or like Cato "the Just," starved them to death. It is the boast of the Turks that they treat their slaves as though they were their chil. dren, yet their common name for them is "dogs," and for the merest trifles, their feet are bastinadoed to a jelly, or their heads clipped off with the scimetar. The Portuguese pride themselves on their gentle bearing toward their slaves, yet the streets of Rio Janeiro are filled with naked men and women yoked in pairs to carts and wagons, and whipped by drivers like beasts of burden.

Slaveholders, the world over, have sung the praises of their tender mercies towards their slaves. Even the wretches that plied the African slave trade, tried to rebut Clarkson's proofs of their cruelties, by speeches, affidavits, and published pamphlets, setting forth the accommoda. tions of the "middle passage," and their kind attentions to the comfort of those whom they had stolen from their homes, and kept stowed away under hatches, during a voyage of four thousand miles. So, according to the testimony of the autocrat of the Russias, he exercises great clemency towards the Poles, though he exiles them by thousands to the snows of Siberia, and tramples them down by millions, at home. Who discredits the atrocities perpetrated by Ovando in Hispaniola, Pizarro in Peru, and Cortez in Mexico,-because they filled the ears of the Spanish Court with protestations of their benignant rule ? While they were yoking the enslaved natives like beasts to the draught, working them to death by thousands in their mines, hunting them with bloodhounds, torturing them on racks, and broiling them on beds of coals, their representations to the mother country teemed with eulogies of their parental sway! The bloody atrocities of Philip II., in the expulsion of his Moorish subjects, are matters of imperishable history. Who disbelieves or doubts them? And yet his courtiers magnified his virtues and chanted his cle. mency and his mercy, while the wail of a million victims, smitten down by a tempest of fire and slaughter let loose at his bidding, rose above the Te Deums that thundered from all Spain's cathe. drals. When Louis XIV. revoked the edict of Nantz, and proclaimed two millions of his subjects free plunder for persecution, when from the English channel to the Pyrennees the mangled bodies of the Protestants were dragged on reeking hurdles by a shouting populace, he claimed to be "the father of his people," and wrote himself "His most Christian Majesty."

But we will not anticipate topics, the fuil discussion of which more naturally follows than