Transcriber’s Note: Minor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. Please consult the end notes, as well, for the approach used in the rendering of Arabic, Greek, Coptic, Hebrew and Syriac text. This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Bold font is delimited by the ‘=’ character. Superscripted and subscripted characters are shown as ‘^2’ and ‘_{2}’ respectively. The rendering of certain characters in classical languages may not display correctly in your reader. Alignment in tables may also be compromised. STUDIES ON SLAVERY, In Easy Lessons. COMPILED INTO EIGHT STUDIES, AND SUBDIVIDED INTO SHORT LESSONS FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF READERS. BY JOHN FLETCHER, OF LOUISIANA. -------------- FIFTH THOUSAND. NATCHEZ: PUBLISHED BY JACKSON WARNER. CHARLESTON: McCARTER & ALLEN.—NEW ORLEANS: JOHN BALL. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO. 1852. ----------------------- ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by JACKSON WARNER, sin the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi. PRINTED BY SMITH & PETERS, Franklin Buildings, Sixth Street below Arch, Philadelphia. -------------- PUBLISHER’S PREFACE. This is a legitimate topic of general interest, and it assumes a preponderating importance to the people of the Southern American States, when the fact is taken into consideration that a general league against the institution of African slavery has been entered into and consummated between most of the civilized nations of the earth, and public opinion in many of the sister States of our own National Union has taken the same direction. The result is, to have arraigned the slaveholding States before the mighty bar of public opinion, on the charge of holding, as property, more than ten hundred millions of dollars’ worth of what does not belong to them, which is and never can be the property of man; and this charge embraces, within its scope, the crimes of theft, robbery, rapine, and cruelty.