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Title: An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections,
and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the
United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries.

Author: Joshua Coffin

Release Date: June 16, 2006 [EBook #18601]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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of America online book collection
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/).

AN ACCOUNT

OF

SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL

SLAVE INSURRECTIONS,

And others, which have occurred, or been attempted,

in the United States and elsewhere, during

the last two centuries.

With Various Remarks.

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Collected from various sources by

Joshua Coffin.

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NEW YORK:

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

1860.

Republished by

Negro History Press -- P. O. Box 5129 -- Detroit, Michigan 48236

TO THE READER.

The subsequent collection of facts is presented to your notice, with
the hope that they will have that effect which facts always have on
every candid and ingenuous mind. They exhibit clearly the dangers to
which slaveholders are always liable, as well as the safety of
immediate emancipation. They furnish, in both cases, a rule which
admits of no exception, as it is always dangerous to do wrong, and
safe to do right. Please to examine carefully the _whole_ account of
the revolution in St. Domingo, beginning in March, 1790, and ending
in 1802. That exhibits a different picture from that presented in a
speech made at the Union-saving meeting lately held in Boston. A part
of the truth may be so told as to have all the effect of a deliberate
lie.

SLAVE INSURRECTIONS.

* *

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our
brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us,
and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.--Gen.
42:21.

Thus said the Lo