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- Title: American Slavery As It Is
- Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
- Release Date : January 23, 2013
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,History,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67375 KB
Description
Published in 1839 and edited by abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, this work presents hundreds of primary-source accounts of the reality of slavery in the American South. The book's first section collects vivid first-person accounts by former slaves of their lives in slavery. In the second part, Weld offers page after page of stark quotations—some as short as a single sentence—from various Southern periodicals that illustrate in graphic detail the bondage, floggings, maimings and other horrors endured by slaves. Weld also presents and dissects various pro-slavery arguments. Distributed by the American Anti-Slavery Society, American Slavery As It Is was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin for its impact on the anti-slavery movement in the United States.