Facts for the People of the Free States
by American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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About This Book
The Hon. J. R. Giddings, in a speech in the House of Representatives, at Washington, Feb. 18, 1846, said—“In regard to arresting slaves, we [of the free States] owe no duties to the master; on the contrary, all our sympathies, our feelings, and our moral duties, beyond what I have stated, are with the slave. We will neither arrest him for the master, nor will we assist the master in making such arrest. I am aware that the third clause of the second section of the first article of the Constitution was once believed, by some, to impose upon the people of these free States the duty of arresting f...
Chapters (49)
- FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE FREE STATES.
- SOUTHERN SCENES IN 1846.
- Murder of Slaves.
- A Slave Woman attempting Suicide at Baltimore.
- A Slave Suicide effected at Richmond, Va.
- Slave Suicide and Slave Hunting in Louisiana.
- More Murders of Slaves.
- THE FUGITIVE SLAVE.
- A Slave Hunter Killed.
- The Rights of the Fugitive.
- PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
- PRESIDENTIAL TESTIMONIES.
- BURDENS OF SLAVERY ON THE FREE.
- The Presidency.
- The Vice Presidency.
- Senate.
- Department of State.
- The War Department.
- Post Office.
- Civil, Diplomatic and Consular Agencies.
- Presidential Electors.
- Federal Representation.
- The House of Representatives.
- Judiciary.
- Surplus Revenue.
- Revolutionary War.
- The War of 1812.
- Florida, Florida War, Removal of the Indians.
- Texas and the Mexican War.
- Bank, Tariff, Southern Bankruptcy, &c.
- SLAVEHOLDING RELIGION.
- Maintaining Theological Seminaries.
- Buying Church Furniture.
- Supporting Churches by Slave Jobbing.
- Selling Ministers as Slaves.
- A Slaveholding D. D. whipping his “b—h” on Sabbath morning preparatory to preaching.
- The Greatest Impediment.
- RELIGIOUS TESTIMONIES.
- ANTI-SLAVERY DEPOSITORY,
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