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STARTLING FACTS,
RELATIVE TO SLAVERY AT THE PRESENT TIME.
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THERE are now, in various
parts of the world, SEVEN AND A HALF MILLIONS of our
fellow-creatures in SLAVERY!
Four Hundred Thousand human beings are annually
torn from their homes and friends. Nearly THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND of this mighty host perish by fire and
sword in their capture, or from privation and suffering.
The remainder are transported over the wide sea, sold by
public auction to be the highest bidder, and consigned
to endless slavery; husbands, wives, and families being
separated from each other, probably never to meet again
in this world.
Upwards of three millions of slaves are held in
the United States of America. They are kept in the
greatest ignorance, and subjected to the most cruel
treatment in that professing Christian country, ever
boasting of its freedom!
The imagination cannot picture a system which could
produce more evil fruit than negro slavery has
produced, and is producing, wherever its horrid
aspect is exhibited. Does it not outrage every
human right - crush every lofty aspiration - rupture
every lovely tie? It is not, in a word, the total
subversion of the law of right for the lawless principle
of force? How long shall its barbarities continue
to affright, and its pollutions sicken, the soul?
Seven and a half millions of our
fellow-creatures are now suffering from its unparalled
atrocities; - held as goods and chattels; the property
of other human beings; transferred from one owner to
another, like beasts that perish. The
contemplation is as awful as it is true.
Reader, hast thou any sympathy and Christian feeling
for these millions of thy brethren and sisters in cruel
bonds? Consider speedily what thou canst do to
hasten their freedom.
Leeds Anti-slavery
Series. No. 3.
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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