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SLAVERY SLAVE TRADE. 99 
slavery, and certain classes of free people 
have no security that their liberties will be 
continued them. Is one poor, or in debt, or 
unfortunate, or a thief, or guilty of adultery, 
or surety for another and cannot pay ; or 
does one curse the king ( speaking against 
him though it may be justly ^ is cursing 
him and punishable, just as speaking 
against slavery 9 though ever so mildy and 
justly^ punishable in the South, and by 
the laws of slave States ), or is he found in 
suspicious circumstances, or does he profane 
a sacred place, or a religious rite? for any 
of the above named things he is sold into 
slavery, unless he has the uncommon good 
fortune to have friends to interpose in hia 
behalf. Is a wife untrue she is sold into 
slavery. Is a father in straightened circum- 
stances, he pawns his child, with no hope, 
often, of being able to redeem that child. 
The system of involuntary servitude is an 
evil socially, intellectually, politically and 
morally in Africa, as in every other country 
where it exists. Out of it grows hellish 
cruelties, and perhaps a more fit appellation 
