American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses - Brossura

Weld, Theodore Dwight

Brossura

ISBN 10: 154553716X ISBN 13: 9781545537169

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Riassunto

The Best Book on Slavery in American ever Written American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Theodore Dwight Weld 1803-1895. 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 children, 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.

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 154553716X
• ISBN 13: 9781545537169
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292