The Negro Problem

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Excerpt from The Negro Problem: An Essay on the Industrial, Political and Moral Aspects of the Negro Race in the Southern States as Presented Under the Late Amendments to the Federal Constitution In viewing the complex relations of human society, we oftimes see events unfold themselves, which in their inception appear trivial and unimportant, yet in their progress and ultimate development may assume proportions that challenge attention and become objects of profound solicitude. The introduction of African slavery into the British Colonies of North America, was, in its early history, divested of all sentiment. The moral and political questions which subsequently gave rise to the fiercest agitation, and which has shaken the American Government to its very foundations, was at this time held in abeyance, and the slave traffic was simply regarded as any other species of merchandise, to be regulated and controlled as the interest or caprice of those engaged might dictate. In all the preceding ages of the past, history informs us that slavery had existed in some form or other, and it only appealed to the moral sense of mankind, when it was brought about by the arbitrary exercise of the rights of conquest, accompanied with acts of oppression and cruelty, in the servitude imposed upon its hapless victims. In the early patriarchal ages, we find the institution of slavery firmly rooted, and grounded, in their domestic economy, and the prophets and law-givers of that pure and primitive age, who were honored by the Most High, as the keepers of His oracles, inveighed not against it as "a league with death and a covenant with hell, " but regarded it as a beneficent institution, that promoted the well being of society. Greece and Rome in their day reared the proudest structures of national glory, and the light of their civilization, beaming upon us through the mist of twenty centuries, reveals the fact, that slavery was an integral part of their civil polity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.