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Horrors of the Virginian slave trade and of the slave-rearing plantations [electronic resource] : the true story of Dinah, an escaped Virginian slave, now in London, on whose body are eleven scars left by tortures which were inflicted by her master, her own father : together with extracts from the laws of Virginia, showing that against these barbarities the law gives not the smallest protection to the slave, but the reverse / by John Hawkins Simpson.

Summary:

This piece was written for a British audience, addressing the question 'Why should not the South be independent, and recognized as such, just in the same way as, in 1776, the United States claimed, and, to the delight of all liberal-minded men, secured, separation from England?' The author points out the contrast between the equality and liberty provisions of the Declaration of Independence and the reality of the slave system which denied all these provisions. These philosophical arguments are followed by a narrative based on the story of Dinah Hope Browne of Virginia (though using some false names) as testimony to the conditions of slave life.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Elizabeth S. Wright, and Natalia Smith.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 23, 2003).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from microform of: Horrors of the Virginian slave trade and of the slave-rearing plantations : the true story of Dinah, an escaped Virginian slave, now in London, on whose body are eleven scars left by tortures which were inflicted by her master, her own father : together with extracts from the laws of Virginia, showing that against these barbarities the law gives not the smallest protection to the slave, but the reverse / by John Hawkins Simpson. London : A.W. Bennett, 1863. viii, 63 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject:
Browne, Dinah Hope.
African Americans > Virginia > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > Virginia > Biography.
Plantation life > Virginia.
Slave trade > United States.
Slavery > Law and legislation > Virginia.
Slavery > United States.
Slavery > Virginia.
Enslaved persons > Virginia > Biography.
Genre:
Slave narratives.

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