Our World: Or the Slaveholder's Daughter (Classics To Go)

Excerpt: In presenting this work to the public we are fully conscious of the grave charges of misrepresenting society and misconstruing facts which will be made by our friends of the South and its very peculiar institution; but earnestly do we enjoin all such champions of things as they are to read and well digest what is here set before them believing that they will find the TRUTH even stranger than fiction. And as an incentive to the noble exertions of those either North or South who would rid our country of its darkest foulest blot we would say that our attempt has been to give a true picture of Southern society in its various aspects and that in our judgment the institution of Slavery is directly chargeable with the various moral social and political evils detailed in OUR WORLD.