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[Illustration: A SLAVE FATHER SOLD AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY.]
THE CHILD'S ANTI-SLAVERY BOOK
CONTAINING A
Few Words about American Slave Children.
AND
STORIES OF SLAVE-LIFE.
TEN ILLUSTRATIONS.
CONTENTS.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT AMERICAN SLAVE CHILDREN
LITTLE LEWIS--THE STORY OF A SLAVE BOY
MARK AND HASTY
AUNT JUDY'S STORY--A STORY FROM REAL LIFE
ME NEBER GIVE IT UP
Illustrations.
A SLAVE FATHER SOLD AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY.
LITTLE LEWIS SOLD.
WHIPPING A SLAVE.
HUNTING RUNAWAY SLAVES.
HASTY'S GRIEF.
AUNT JUDY'S HUSBAND CAPTURED.
HANDCUFFING JUDY'S HUSBAND.
WAITING TO BE SOLD.
AUNT JUDY.
"ME NEBER GIB IT UP!"
A FEW WORDS ABOUT AMERICAN SLAVE CHILDREN.
Children, you are free and happy. Kind parents watch over you with loving eyes; patient teachers instruct you from the beautiful pages of the printed book; benign laws, protect you from violence, and prevent the strong arms of wicked people from hurting you; the blessed Bible is in your hands; when you become men and women you will have full liberty to earn your living, to go, to come, to seek pleasure or profit in any way that you may choose, so long as you do not meddle with the rights of other people; in one word, _you are free children_! Thank God! thank God! my children, for this precious gift. Count it dearer than life. Ask the great God who made you free to teach you to prefer death to the loss of liberty.
But are all the children in America free like you? No, no! I am sorry to tell you that hundreds of thousands of American children are _slaves_. Though born beneath the same sun and on the same soil, with the same natural right to freedom as yourselves, they are nevertheless SLAVES. Alas for them! Their parents cannot train them as they will, for they too have MASTERS. These masters say to them:
"Your children are OURS--OUR PROPERTY! They shall not be taught to read or write; they shall never go to school; they shall not be taught to read the Bible; they must submit to us and not to you; we shall whip them, sell them, and do what else we please with them. They shall never own themselves, never have the right to dispose of themselves, but shall obey us in all things as long as they live!"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Child's Anti-Slavery Book Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life.
- 2: Or an acre of land as property
- 3: Illustration LITTLE LEWIS SOLD
- 4: You thought you'd run away with the tag
- 5: And Nelly were almost grown up
- 6: And to see him turning somersets
- 7: Aunt Sally put her head out of the cabin door
- 8: But Lewis stayed by his mother
- 9: But there's Sam Tyler down to Massa Pond's
- 10: I'd 'vise ye to ask Massa Stamford
- 11: Lewis was now a boy of seventeen
- 12: And Lewis found him a very pleasant master
- 13: That was a happy day for Lewis
- 14: Lewis knew where to carry the note
- 15: Suspicion immediately fell upon Miss Ford
- 16: Kase he had to wait for de carriage
- 17: It appears that the boy has been impudent
- 18: Jennings awoke the next morning
- 19: Nelson to overlook this offense
- 20: I'se afeard Fanny won't play any more
- 21: All was bustle and excitement on the levee
- 22: Kase de Lord will bring it all right in his time
- 23: Jennings ordered her coachman to go for a physician
- 24: The sickness of the little poodle dog
- 25: Jennings verified her promise to Hasty
- 26: Now Cornelia had a little white banty
- 27: And Aunt Judy regaled with a nice cup of tea
- 28: Who were eager and impatient for the coming of Aunt Judy
- 29: And were cruel and warlike among each other
- 30: It will be a splendid morning for a sleigh ride
- 31: And there lay six beautiful little white banties
- 32: Madison had made provision for the emancipation of Judy
- 33: Judy obtained a permit to enter the jail
- 34: But Judy was taken no notice of
- 35: Judy and Charley accompanied Mr
- 36: And carried to the auction rooms
- 37: Illustration ME NEBER GIB IT UP