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OUT TO-DAY.
INSIDE VIEWS OF SLAVERY ON SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS.
BY JOHN ROLES,
For twenty-five years a resident of the South and for ten years an overseer on some of the largest cotton plantations;
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATHAN BROWN.
FIFTEEN SPIRITED ILLUSTRATIONS.
A Mississippi Plantation – Runaways – A Wealthy Owner – An Exhorter – Manacles and Instruments of Torture – Commencement of My Own Slave-driving – Further Experience in Driving – Slaveholding Piety – A Change – History of a Preacher’s Daughter – Dreadful Death – A Family Sketch – Struggles with Conscience – Slave-driving Abandoned and Resumed – New-York Observer on the Piety of Slaves – A Martyr Spirit – Preacher George Finds He Cannot Serve Three Masters – My Last Experiences in Slaveland.
Price 25 cents. Sold by Booksellers Everywhere.
JAMES J. SPELMAN, GENERAL AGENT,
No. 37 PARK ROW (ROOM 24), NEW-YORK.