Horrors of the Virginian slave trade and of the slave-rearing plantations
Subtitle: the true story of Dinah, an escaped Virginian slave, now in London, on whose body are eleven scars left by tortures which were inflicted by her master, her own father : together with extracts from the laws of Virginia, showing that against these barbarities the law gives not the smallest protection to the slave, but the reverse
By: by John Hawkins Simpson
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Plantation life; Slavery; Law and legislation; Slave trade
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Description: This piece was written for a British audience, addressing the question 'Why should not the South be independent, and recognized as such, just in the same way as, in 1776, the United States claimed, and, to the delight of all liberal-minded men, secured, separation from England?'  The author points out the contrast between the equality and liberty provisions of the Declaration of Independence and the reality of the slave system which denied all these provisions. These philosophical arguments are followed by a narrative based on the story of Dinah Hope Browne of Virginia (though using some false names) as testimony to the conditions of slave life.
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Transcribed from microform of: Horrors of the Virginian slave trade and of the slave-rearing plantations : the true story of Dinah, an escaped Virginian slave, now in London, on whose body are eleven scars left by tortures which were inflicted by her master, her own father : together with extracts from the laws of Virginia, showing that against these barbarities the law gives not the smallest protection to the slave, but the reverse / by John Hawkins Simpson. London : A.W. Bennett, 1863. viii, 63 p.

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