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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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It is, however, a notable fact, that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans, upon those engaged in the foreign slave trade, the men engaged in the slave trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable.
Behold the practical operation of this internal slave trade--the American slave trade sustained by American politics and American religion! Here you will see men and women reared like swine for the market.

You know what is a swine-drover?
I will show you a man-drover.
They inhabit all our southern states.

They perambulate the country, and crowd the{355} highways of the nation with droves of human stock.

You will see one of these human-flesh-jobbers, armed with pistol, whip, and bowie-knife, driving a company of a hundred men, women, and children, from the Potomac to the slave market at New Orleans.

These wretched people are to be sold singly, or in lots, to suit purchasers.


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