Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try 1 a plain ease and bring in an honest verdict. | The question at issue is not one of law, but of fact-" What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States 1" A plainer ease never went to a jury. Look at it. Twenty-seven hundred thousand persons in this country, men, women, and children, are in slavery. Is slavery, as a condition for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent ? We submit the question without argument. You have common Bense, and conscience, and a human heart;-pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister- make the ease your own, make it theire, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered--"Guilty ;" the same sentence has always been pronounced, "Let it be accursed;" and human n%-ture, with her million echoes, has rung it roun
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Introduction-7-10 Twenty-ssvcn hundred thousand free bom citizens of t'ie IT S in slavery, 7 : Tender mercies of slaveholders, 8: Abnm i nations of slavery, 9: Character of the testimony, 9-10; Personal Narratives-Part I pp 10-27; Narrative of Neiiemiah Caulkins, 102; North Carolina slaver)', II; Methodist preaching slnvedriver, Calloway, 12: Women at child-birth, 12: Slaves at labor, 12: Clothing of slaves, 13; Allowance of provisions, 13 ; Slave-fetters, 13 ; Cruelties to slaves, 13, 11, 15, Burying a slave alive, 15 ; Licentiousness of Slaveholder:*, 15, li»; Rev Thomas P Hunt, with his "hands tied," 16: Preacher* cringe to slavery, 15; Nakedness of hiaves, 1G; Slave-huts, 16; Means of subsistence for vhtves, 16, 17 ; Slaves' prayer, 17; Narrrattvb of Rkv Horace Moulton, 17 ; Labor of the slaves, 18 ; Tasks, 18 ; Whipping posts, 18 ; Food, H: House?, 19; Clothing 19; Punishments, 19, 20; Scenes of horror, 20; Con
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Introduction-7-10 Twenty-ssvcn hundred thousand free bom citizens of t'ie IT S in slavery, 7 : Tender mercies of slaveholders, 8: Abnm i nations of slavery, 9: Character of the testimony, 9-10; Personal Narratives-Part I pp 10-27; Narrative of Neiiemiah Caulkins, 102; North Carolina slaver)', II; Methodist preaching slnvedriver, Calloway, 12: Women at child-birth, 12: Slaves at labor, 12: Clothing of slaves, 13; Allowance of provisions, 13 ; Slave-fetters, 13 ; Cruelties to slaves, 13, 11, 15, Burying a slave alive, 15 ; Licentiousness of Slaveholder:*, 15, li»; Rev Thomas P Hunt, with his "hands tied," 16: Preacher* cringe to slavery, 15; Nakedness of hiaves, 1G; Slave-huts, 16; Means of subsistence for vhtves, 16, 17 ; Slaves' prayer, 17; Narrrattvb of Rkv Horace Moulton, 17 ; Labor of the slaves, 18 ; Tasks, 18 ; Whipping posts, 18 ; Food, H: House?, 19; Clothing 19; Punishments, 19, 20; Scenes of horror, 20; Con
