negro-raising

Updated: May 4, 2025

Professor DEW, now President of the University of William and Mary, Virginia, in his Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1831-2, says, p 49. "Virginia is, in fact, a negro-raising state for other states." Extract from the speech of MR. FAULKNER, in the Va. And, sir, as things are, I believe he is correct. He says, and in this he is sustained by the gentleman from Halifax, Mr.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

If the South has taken its wishes for realities in Europe, it has committed the same error in America. The negro-raising States could not possibly regard the future in the same light as the consuming States. Their revenues are based on the value of the domestic slave trade, which bears no resemblance to that of the African slave trade.

comte de Agénor Gasparin - The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States.