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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Chapter 27: Transcriber's Note
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The author makes a systematic moral, historical, and economic case against the institution of slavery, combining documentary evidence, legal and scriptural critique, and personal appeal. She traces the development of the transatlantic trade and the ways it has disrupted African societies through warfare, kidnapping, and economic distortion. She analyzes its corrupting effects in the Americas, arguing that bondage degrades labor, perverts laws and religious practice, and harms both the enslaved and the enslavers. The work contrasts slave with free labor, rejects schemes to expatriate freed people, and calls for emancipation accompanied by civil rights and social integration. The tone is urgent and persuasive, aimed at conscience and public policy.

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INDEX.

  • Adams, John, 109
  • Adams, J. Quincy, 109
  • Africa benighted by Slavery, 9
  • African Repository, Extracts from, 123, 133, 137
  • African Individuals of distinction, 157 to 167
  • Amalgamation, 132, 200
  • Ancient and Modern Slavery compared, 38
  • Anti-Slavery Society, 142
  • Appleton, Mr. 78
  • Baptism supposed to confer freedom, 58
  • Bible opposed to slavery, 32
  • Blood-hounds, 27
  • Brown, Moses, 98
  • Brodnax, Mr. 79
  • Capt. Riley, 73
  • Charles 5th, refused to sanction the slave-trade, 8
  • Child follows the condition of its mother, 40
  • Christianity abolished slavery, 58
  • Clay, Henry, 77, 136
  • Clothing of Slaves, 44
  • Code Noir, 46, 49, 54
  • Colonization, 123
  • Cruelties to Slaves, 17, 24, 26, 28
  • Devonshire, Duchess of, 215
  • Democracy of the North, 112
  • District of Columbia, 216
  • Duelling, 113
  • Dymond, Jonathan, 147
  • Eastern and Western Virginia, 119
  • Effect of Slavery on the Masters, 22
  • Egyptians, 149
  • Elizabeth of England tolerated the trade, 8
  • Emancipation safe, 87
  • English formerly sold to Irish, 58
  • Entailed upon us by England, 75
  • Ethiopians, 149
  • Everett, Alexander H. 176
  • Evidence of colored persons not admitted, 45, 48
  • Faulkner, Mr. 79
  • Female slaves unprotected, 23
  • Fierceness and pride induced by Slavery, 113
  • Food of Slaves, 44
  • French planter's ideas of religion for Slaves, 58
  • Free Labor, 76
  • Garrison, Mr. 209
  • Gentoo Code, 52
  • Gholson, Mr. 102
  • Grecian Slavery, 47, 53, 54, 56
  • Happiness of Slaves, 140
  • Hayne, Mr. 103
  • Hayti, 86, 121
  • Hebrews, 48, 52, 55
  • Helots, 47
  • Humanity of masters, how far a protection, 72
  • Indian treatment of Slaves, 46
  • Inequality of laws for offences, 60
  • Insurrections, 194
  • Intellect of Africans, 151, 170
  • Internal slave-trade, 33
  • Interest to treat slaves well, 30
  • Jefferson, Thomas, 22
  • Kenrick, John, 215
  • Kidnapping, 34, 65
  • Labor compulsory and uncompensated, 41
  • Lafayette, 97
  • Laws regulating labor, 43, 44
  • Laws obstruct emancipation, 54
  • Laws to perpetuate ignorance, 59, 67, 70
  • Laws against Free Colored People, 63
  • Louis 13th, 8
  • Marriages, laws concerning, 196
  • Martineau, Harriet, 83
  • Masters have absolute power to punish, 49
  • Miller, Gov. of S. Carolina, 103
  • Missouri Question, 120
  • Moral Character of Africans, 177
  • Moss, Mary and Helen, 24
  • New-England kept in check by jealousy of the Slave States, 114
  • North and South, 31
  • Ohio and Kentucky, 86
  • Offences punished in Slaves, 61
  • Park, Mungo, 177
  • Pauperism, comparative in West Indies, 90
  • Petitions, 216
  • Pinckney, Charles, 108
  • Political power of Slave States, 111
  • Portuguese, 7, 48, 54
  • Prejudice against color almost unknown in other countries, 135, 208
  • Prejudice cherished by Colonization, 133
  • Prejudice, instances of, 198 to 209
  • Quakers, 213
  • Religious privileges of Slaves, 57
  • Roane, Mr. 139
  • Roman Slaves, 47, 54, 55
  • Runaways, 62, 71
  • Sectional dislike, 121
  • Slave Trade, beginning of, 7
  • Slave Ship, description of, 12
  • Slave Trade, cruelties of, 17
  • Slave Trade defended in House of Commons, 19
  • Slave Trade sanctioned by Constitution of the United States for twenty years, 36
  • Slave cut in pieces, 26
  • Slave Codes, different degrees of mildness, 39
  • Slavery, hereditary and perpetual, 42
  • Slaves cannot own property, 46, 71
  • Slaves considered as chattels, 45
  • Slaves in Africa, 48
  • Slaves never allowed to resist, 52
  • Slaves in U. S. cannot redeem themselves, 53
  • Slaves unprotected in domestic relations, 54
  • Slave Representation, 105
  • Slavery veiled in the Constitution, 106
  • Son, who murdered his father to obtain freedom, 23
  • Southerners do not desire the abolition of Slavery, 100
  • Southerner, conversation with, 139
  • Spanish Slaves, 7, 48, 54, 56
  • St. Domingo, 86
  • Sutcliff's Travels, 81
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture, 166
  • Turkey, 56
  • Union, 119
  • Washington's Slaves, 96
  • Washington had doubts, 107
  • Wirt, William, 102
  • Wright, Gov. of Maryland, 106
  • Zhinga, 154

Transcriber's Note

This ebook retains the spelling variations and inconsistencies of the original document. Where corrections to quotation marks seemed necessary, changes were made, as detailed below. However, quotation-mark usage in this text is variable. Some quoted passages have end-quotes after each paragraph; some after only the final paragraph quoted. This style matches that of the original document published in 1836.

The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:

Title Page: Added missing quotation marks (Our brethren!")
Page 7: Added missing end punctuation (Wordsworth.)
Page 9: Changed igenuity to ingenuity (excite industry and ingenuity)
  Changed diastrous to disastrous (have been most disastrous)
  Changed intercouse to intercourse (intercourse with Europeans)
Page 10: Added missing end punctuation (spears of the enemy.)
Page 12: Changed 'two' to 'too' (becomes almost too harrowing)
Page 14: Added missing quotation marks ("The officers insisted)
  Changed kness to knees (against our knees)
Page 16: Changed stong to strong (a very strong party)
  Changed consequnce to consequence (consequence of the severe)
  Added missing quotation marks (old candle-boxes.")
Page 23: Changed consience to conscience (a matter of conscience)
Page 26: Changed Jeferson's to Jefferson's (the son of Jefferson's)
Page 33: Added missing quotation marks (for safe-keeping.")
Page 46: Added missing quotation marks ("All that a slave)
Page 51: Added missing comma (his or her master, mistress)
Page 60: Added missing quotation marks (_at least nine_.")
Page 85: A set of quotation marks appears omitted but it was not possible to determine where they were to have been added.
Page 99: Changed agreeaable to agreeable (an agreeable novelty)
Page 137: Changed 'them-themselves' to 'themselves' (pledge themselves)
  Removed stray quotation marks (their qualifications?)
Page 145: Removed duplicate word 'been' (to have been the meekest)
Page 146: Changed opnion to opinion (influences public opinion)
Page 157: Added missing end punctuation (in the year 1734.)
Page 159: Changed Geoffrroy to Geoffroy (Lislet Geoffroy)
Page 183: Added missing punctuation (to negro property; what would)
Page 192: Added missing quotation marks ("among one hundred)
Page 195: Added missing quotation marks (your honor," said the Corporal)
Page 211: Changed 'to' to 'too' (too much respect)
Page 216: Changed onr to our (an allusion to our)