Silent South: Together With the Freedman''s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Silent South: Together With the Freedman''s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System<br><br>No comparable entanglement was ever drawn round itself by any other modern nation with so serene a disregard of its ultimate issue or with a more distinct national responsibility. The Afri can Slave was brought here by cruel force and with everybody''s consent except his own. Every where the practice was favored as a measure of common aggrandizement. When a few men and women protested they were mobbed in the pub lic interest with the public consent. There rests therefore a moral responsibility on the whole na tion never to lose sight of the results of African American Slavery until they cease to work mis chief and injustice.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.