NEGRO SLAVERY; OR, A VIEW OF SOME OF THE MORE PROMINENT FEATURES OF THAT STATE OF SOCIETY, AS IT EXISTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND IN THE COLONIES OF THE WEST INDIES, ESPECIALLY IN JAMAICA. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY, SOLD ALSO BY W. GRAPEL, CHURCH STREET, AND G. AND J. 1823. Price Three Shillings. gift Tappan Presb, Assor CONTENTS. Page THE Negro Slavery of the UNITED STATES illustrated by a NEGRO SLAVERY, &c. &c. THE object of the present publication is to furnish to the public a plain, authentic, and unvarnished picture of Negro slavery, not as it may have existed at some antecedent period of time, but as it exists at the present moment, both in the United States of America, and in the European Colonies of the West Indies, which have been peopled by imported Africans. shall begin with the United States. We THE NEGRO SLAVERY of the UNITED STATES. The real nature of Negro slavery, as it exists in the United States, at the present moment, cannot be better exhibited than by republishing an article which made its appearance not long since in a monthly periodical work. It is a review of two volumes of travels which had recently been published in this country; the one entitled "Travels in Canada and the United States," by Lieutenant Francis Hall; and the other, "Sketches of America," by Mr. Fearon. The article is as follows. In undertaking the review of the works of Lieutenant Hall and Mr. Fearon, we have no intention to amuse our readers with a description of American scenery, or to communicate information on the politics B |