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Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.
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gutenberg.orgCydnor Tompkins: “Such was the sentiment of North Carolina in 1774, as to the evil and great wrong of slavery.”
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Tompkins reflects on the historical sentiment against slavery in North Carolina during the 18th century.
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Before you complain of the free States, arrest and punish the scoundrels who so cruelly treated the Irishman at Columbia, South Carolina, for no offence but saying that slavery was detrimental to free labor.
Punish the thousands of others who have committed acts of violence against free-State men, and are yet unwhipped of justice.
I have endeavored to show what slavery is, what it has done, and what it intends to do.
The agricultural, the manufacturing, the great commercial interests of this country, are entirely ignored, neglected, and forgotten, that the interests of one hundred thousand slaveholders may be advanced.
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