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Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?”
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Julian questions the unrealistic expectation that slave owners would become advocates for African Americans' rights.
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Moreover, men absorbed in a feverish and hazardous industry, and stimulated by the hope of sudden wealth, are not disposed to consider the advantages of permanent ownership and security of title.
They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.
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