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Updated: May 2, 2025
The negro has been accused of voting for money, but it is doubtful if as a race, he is any more prone to this practice than his white fellow citizens among whom this abuse seems to be growing. Mandy Gibson: There were auction-blocks near the court houses where the slaves were sold to the highest bidders.
You need not become a friend of oppression; you need not approve of "auction-blocks," and "separation of families;" slavery can exist when these are done away. Until you are appointed and commissioned as a minister of righteousness to Southern Christians and ministers, I advise you to blot slavery out of the list of topics about which you are called to express the least concern.
North?" said I. "Yet it is 'slavery. 'Auction-blocks, 'whippings, 'roastings, 'separations of families, are not 'slavery. They are its abuses; slavery can exist when they cease. I pray you, is such slavery as the God of the Hebrews appointed, in such cases as these, 'forever, an unmitigated curse?
"What would become of them?" said I. "Hire them," said he; "pay them wages; let husbands and wives live together; abolish auction-blocks, and" "But," said I, "some of the very best of men in the world, at the South, are decidedly of the opinion that such emancipation would be the most barbarous thing that could be devised for the slaves." "Are you a slave-holder?" said he.
"I have come to this conclusion: if Southern Christians say to us, as they do, Auction-blocks, separation of families, and similar features of slavery, in the limited and decreasing extent to which they prevail, are as odious to us as to you; we tolerate these things as parts of a system which we all feel to be an evil, and which we are constantly striving to ameliorate; I will leave the whole subject in their hands; I will trust them in this as I would in anything and everything; I feel absolved from all responsibility to God or to them with regard to the matter."
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