The Works of Charles Sumner, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Works of Charles Sumner, Vol. 5 There is a tradition of the Prophet having said, that the greatest mortification at the Day of Judgment will be when the pious slave is carried to Paradise and the wicked master condemned to Hell. - Saadi, The Gulistan, tr. Gladwin, p. 242. "And the Black Oppressor am I called. And for this reason I am called the Black Oppressor, that there is not a single man around me whom I have not oppressed, and justice have I done unto none.".... "Since thou hast, indeed, been an oppressor so long, said Peredur, "I will cause that thou continue so no longer." So he slew him. - The Mabinogion, tr. Lady Charlotte Guest, Vol. I. pp. 341, 342. After we had secured these people, I called the linguists, and ordered them to bid the men-negroes between decks be quiet (for there was a great noise amongst them). On their being silent, I asked, What had induced them to mutiny? They answered, was a great rogue to buy them in order to carry them away from their own country, and that they were resolved to regain their liberty, if possible. - Snelgrave, New Account of some Parts of Guinea and the SlaveTrade, p. 170. A system of concubinage was practised among them worse than the loose polygamy of the savages: the savage had as many women as consented to become his wives; the colonist as many as he could enslave. There is an ineffaceable stigma upon the Europeans in their intercourse with those whom they treat as inferior races; there is a perpetual contradiction between their lust and their avarice. The planter will one day take a slave for his harlot, and sell her the next as a being of some lower species, a beast of labor. If she be indeed an inferior animal, what shall be said of the one action? If she be equally with himself a human being and an immortal soul, what shall be said of the other? Either way there is a crime committed against human nature. - Southey, History of Brazil, Chap. VIII., Vol. I. p. 258. Negro slavery exists in no part of the world without producing indolence, licentiousness, and inhumanity in the whites; and these vices draw after them their earthly punishment, - to look no farther into their fearful, but assured consequences. - Ibid., Chap. XLIV., Vol. III. p. 816. I had observed much, and heard more, of the cruelty of masters towards their negroes; but now I received an authentic account of some horrid instances thereof. The giving a child a slave of its own age to tyrannize over, to beat and abuse out of sport, was, I myself saw, a common practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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