An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
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AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS
AN APPEAL, &c.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
Proposition 1.—Slavery hereditary and perpetual.
Prop. 2.—Labor compulsory and uncompensated, &c.
Prop. 3.—Slaves considered personal chattels, liable to be sold, pledged, &c.
Prop. 4.—Slaves can have no legal claim to any property.
Prop. 5.—No colored man can be evidence against a white man, &c.
Prop. 6.—The master has absolute power to punish a slave, &c.
Prop. 7.—The slave never allowed to resist a white man.
Prop. 8.—Slaves cannot redeem themselves or change masters.
Prop. 9.—Slave unprotected in his domestic relations.
Prop. 10.—The laws obstruct emancipation.
Prop. 11.—Operation of the laws interferes with religious privileges.
Prop. 12.—Whole power of the laws exerted to keep negroes in ignorance.
Prop. 13.—There is a monstrous inequality of law and right.
Prop. 14.—The laws operate oppressively on free colored people.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
INDEX.
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