Excerpt from Two Lectures on the Subjects of Slavery and Abolition: Compiled for the Special Use of Anti-Slavery Lecturers and Debaters, and Intended for Public Reading The object ofthe First of these Lectures is to prove, that Slavery is segrest a crime a gainst the Law of God, as murder, or any other crime; and that it is, also, a great crime as gainst the Common Law. The object of the Second Lecture is to prove, that the immediate abolition of Slavery, is not only a just and righteous measure, but is at all times, and under all circumstances, perfectly safe and greatly beneficial to all persons or parties concerned or interested therein, and that it is the only kind of safe Abolition. 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.

V. 2, or "Second series," contains material on "Cotton, the corner-stone of slavery," the abolition movement, capital punishment, woman suffrage, the labor movement, temperance, Christianity, the Puritan principle, and education; and tributes to Theodore Parker, Francis Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Eliza Garrison, and Harriet Martineau. Prefatory note signed: Theodore C. Pease.

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was not an occasion but a near-century-long process—a shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and women. “Ira Berlin ranks as one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States... The Long Emancipation offers a useful reminder that abolition was not the charitable work of respectable white people, or not mainly that. Instead, the demise of slavery was made possible by the constant discomfort inflicted on middle-class white society by black activists. And like the participants in today’s Black Lives Matter movement, Berlin has not forgotten that the history of slavery in the United States—especially the history of how slavery ended—is never far away when contemporary Americans debate whether their nation needs to change.” —Edward E. Baptist, New York Times Book Review

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Possibly the most important book on abolition published in the past generation.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.