A Letter to the Women of England, on Slavery in the Southern States of America

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Excerpt from A Letter to the Women of England, on Slavery in the Southern States of America: Considered Especially in Reference to the Condition of the Female SlavesI m venturing to address you on the degrada tions and sufferings of women, not only of African race, but many of mixed races, some, the experience of my own eyesight assures me, of European blood, of all shades of colour, from light-blue eyes and ¿axen hair, through brunette, brown, &c., , to black. In one single day, at Augusta, in the State of Georgia, I saw several white slave girls, with blue eyes and dazou hair, and I bought a curl from one of them for a dollar to bring home with me to show what sort of wool some of the Southern female slaves have on their heads, many of my friends saw it with astonishment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.