Remarks On Certain Topics Connected With the General Subject of Slavery
Remarks On Certain Topics Connected With the General Subject of Slavery
Samuel Henry Dickson
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"■ Page 153, + Pages 169, 171. peaceable until conquered by the Republic ol Hayti in 1820, (from 1794, a period of twenty-six years. ")* I would accord the slave the privilege of owning certain kinds of property and of purchasing his freedom under defi- nite regulations. There is no danger in the removal of the present restraints as to this mode of individual emancipation. We shall always have a sufficient number of slaves here. — The negro is proverbially fertile, and he will always be so in a... favorable climate and in the state of bondage. He is thus kept at that point, — above destitution and below luxury, or full living, — which, by a law of nature, is found best adapted for the propagation of the species and its rapid increase and multiplication. I am not so clear as to his enjoyment of another privilege above mentioned — that of paying a certain rate of wages when discontented vvith personal servitude, or with the mode of occupation allotted him by his master. It is obvious that this would be inconsistent with the due management of a plantation, yet it might be introduced into the cities and an- swer a good purpose among town laborers, house servants and mechanics.
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