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Description:Excerpt from Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" Most New England men, who have talked five minutes with a Virginian, have heard him illustrate the characters of the two races by a reference to their Roundhead and Cavalier origin. He is apt to be under some misapprehension of the facts. Of the Roundhead founders of Massachusetts many were persons of fortune and education, and not a few were of the noble and gentle blood of England. The settlers of Virginia were Cavaliers of that sort of which Wildrake, in Scott's novel of Woodstock, is the type and embodiment. "A great part," so says Captain Smith, the man who saved them from self-destruction, "were unruly sparks, packed off by their friends to escape worse destinies at home. Many were poor gentlemen, broken tradesmen, rakes, and libertines, footmen, and such others as were much fitter to spoil and ruin a Commonwealth than to help to raise or maintain one." These were just the sort of people for slavery to suit. A Dutch ship, in 1620, brought some African slaves into James River, and from that time the importation went on rapidly. The foundation of the domestic institution, and of the social fabric of the South, were laid. When, in 1646, a cargo of Africans were brought from the slave-coast to Boston, the magistrates sent them back, declaring themselves "bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing." The destiny of New-England was to be different. The settlement of South Carolina began with negroes from the West Indies, and in a few years their number within her borders was nearly double that of the whites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" Most New England men, who have talked five minutes with a Virginian, have heard him illustrate the characters of the two races by a reference to their Roundhead and Cavalier origin. He is apt to be under some misapprehension of the facts. Of the Roundhead founders of Massachusetts many were persons of fortune and education, and not a few were of the noble and gentle blood of England. The settlers of Virginia were Cavaliers of that sort of which Wildrake, in Scott's novel of Woodstock, is the type and embodiment. "A great part," so says Captain Smith, the man who saved them from self-destruction, "were unruly sparks, packed off by their friends to escape worse destinies at home. Many were poor gentlemen, broken tradesmen, rakes, and libertines, footmen, and such others as were much fitter to spoil and ruin a Commonwealth than to help to raise or maintain one." These were just the sort of people for slavery to suit. A Dutch ship, in 1620, brought some African slaves into James River, and from that time the importation went on rapidly. The foundation of the domestic institution, and of the social fabric of the South, were laid. When, in 1646, a cargo of Africans were brought from the slave-coast to Boston, the magistrates sent them back, declaring themselves "bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing." The destiny of New-England was to be different. The settlement of South Carolina began with negroes from the West Indies, and in a few years their number within her borders was nearly double that of the whites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Papers on the Slave Power: First Published in the "Boston Whig" (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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