The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 9 of 10 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 9 of 10Negro slavery was introduced into all the English colonies of North America as a custom, and not under any warrant of law. The em slavement of the negro race was simply a mat ter against which no white person chose to enter a protest, or make resistance, while the negroes themselves were powerless to resist or even protest. In due course of time laws were passed by the Colonial Assemblies to protect property in negroes, while the home govern ment, to the very last, actively protected and encouraged the Slave trade to the colonies. Negro slavery in all the colonies had thus passed from custom to law before the American Revolution broke out, and the course of the Revolution itself had little or no effect on the system.From the beginning, it was evident that the course of slavery in the two sections, North and South, was to be altogether divergent. In the colder North, the dominant race found it easier to work than to compel negroes to work: in the warmer South, the case was exactly re versed. At the close of the Revolution, Massa chusetts led the way in an abolition of slavery, which was followed gradually by the other States north of Virginia, and in 1787 the ordi nance of Congress organizing the Northwest Territory made all the future States north of the Ohio free States. Mason and Dixon's line and the Ohio River thus seemed, in 1790, to be the natural boundary between the free and the slave States.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.