Hints On a Cheap Mode of Purchasing the Liberty of a Slave Population
Hints On a Cheap Mode of Purchasing the Liberty of a Slave Population
Thomas Watters
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And it should further be borne in miml, that the above remarks of Mr. Sadler refer to any sensible dimi- nution of^fcmalcs at the time of birth, th-ough in the due course of nature a large proportion of such females^ always die before puberty; but how much more fatal would bean eqiml difninution- of young grown up women or of virgins, who had just arrived at the age of fruitfulness, for whom the rest of society had in vain toiled, that they might continue the species afar from dan- ger and unha...rmed of wars] Who, that has followed the virgin to the tomb, but has felt, that besides the bereavement of friends society has been disappointed in its hopes! The heart seems to, hear her exclaim from her cold bier in tiie words of Antigone: — "No nuptial song Reserved for me, the wretched bride alone Of Pluto now, and wedded to the tomb;. Ne'er shall. I taste of Hymen's joys, or know A mothers pleasure in her infant race; But, friendless and forlorn, alive descend Into the dreary mautions of the dead :" Though the foregoing quotation from the work of Mr Sadler, njust ha«ye convin(?, ed the reader, that the general principles, on» 16 which we have based our system, are correct, yet the desire of computing the practical power of those principles naturally leads to the iiiiporttint inquiries, at what age our female slaves usual- ly commence child bearing?
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