anti-congeniality

Updated: June 2, 2025

In this most elaborate sentence, a foreigner would discern no slavery. None but those already acquainted with the serpent, would be able to discover its sting. It does not say slaves; for the feelings of the framers of that glorious instrument would not suffer them to use that word, on account of its anti-congeniality its incongeniality to the idea of a constitution for freemen.

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans