Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
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From the opening
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are emphasis only. I have omitted running heads and have closed
contractions, e.g. "she 's" becoming "she's"; in addition, on page
180, stanza 3, line 1, I have changed the single quotation mark at the
beginning of the line to a double quotation mark.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by THE AMERICAN
TRACT SOCIETY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.
MY DEAR CHILDREN,--All of you who read this little book have doubtless
heard more or less of slavery. You know it is the system by which a
portion of our people hold their fellow-creatures as property, and doom
them to perpetual servitude. It is a hateful and accursed institution,
which God can not look upon but with abhorrence, and which no one of
his children should for a moment tolerate. It is opposed to every thing
Christian and humane, and full of all meanness and cruelty. It treats a
fellow-being, only because his skin is not so fair as our own, as
though he were a dumb animal or a piece of furniture. It allows him
no expression of choice about any thing, and no liberty of action. It
recognizes and employs all the instincts of the lower, but ignores and
tramples down all the faculties of his higher, nature. Can there be a
greater wrong?
It is said by some, in extenuation of this wrong, that the slaves are
well fed and clothed, and are kindly, even affectionately, looked
after. This is true, in some cases,--with the house-servants,
particularly,--but, as a general thing, their food and clothing are
coarse and insufficient. But supposing it was otherwise; supposing they
were provided for with as much liberality as are the working classes at
the North, what is that when put into the balance with all the ills they
suffer?
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