American Slavery As It Was by Theodore Dwight Weld

American Slavery As It Was by Theodore Dwight Weld

Author:Theodore Dwight Weld [Weld, Theodore Dwight]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781108084048
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-27T00:00:00+00:00


"You may be assured, sir, that I remained not unmoved: I could no longer look on such cruelty, but turned away and rode on, while the echoes of the lash were reverberating in the woods around me. Such scenes have long since become familiar to me. But then the full effect was not lost; and I shall never forget, to my latest day, the mingled feelings of pity, horror, and indignation that took possession of my mind. I involuntarily exclaimed, O God of my fathers, how dost thou permit such things to defile our land! Be merciful to us! and visit us not in justice, for all our iniquities and the iniquities of our fathers!



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