A Social History of the American Family From Colonial Times to the Present Volu
A Social History of the American Family From Colonial Times to the Present Volu
Arthur Wallace Calhoun
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Parent. " \\'hitc citizens of North and I^ast often kidnapped negro children and soltl them south. Many families of free colored people in free states mourned over rela- tives who had suddenly disappeared- presumably kid- napped and sold. '" Apologists for slavery tried to condf)ne the separa- tion of relatives by comparing it with similar phenom- ena among free peoples. 'I'hus the laborer places his children to service, many persons left home for the gold regions, and "many in Europe have aban...doned their families for Australia, or the Cnited States, or the Canadas. " We are told that in practice there was no more separation of children from parents in chatteldom than in New England families whose children as a rule scattered all over the earth. ]n the writings of a trav- eller of the early forties we read that "members of the same family of negroes arc not so much scattered as are '-'Hood. I'nitfd Slatfs Constitution and Sorialism, 23; American and foreign Anti-ilavery Society. Tenth Annual Rrport, 86.
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