an Account Of Some Of The Principal Slave Insurrections Paperback -

Joshua Coffin Was An American Antiquary And AbolitionistHe Graduated At Dartmouth In , And Taught School For Many YearsCoffin Helped Found The Newengland Antislavery Society In 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 Was Published In Coffin Gives The Moral And Legal Reasons Why Slavery Is WrongHe Says The Slave Owner Should Repent His Sins And The Slave Be Emancipated Which Is His Given RightCoffin Ends By Saying, Therefore, Gentle Reader In The Irrepressible Conflict That Is Now Agitating The Country, And Will Continue To Agitate It Till Slavery Is Abolished, Which Side Have You Chosen, Or Do You Intend To Choose? Will You Take The Higher Law, Which Is In Harmony With Gods Providence And His Word, Or Act In Favor Of The Lower Law, Which Opposes Both? If Slavery Is Right, Sustain, Defend And Justify It, But If It Is ACrime, Do All In Your Power, By Moral Means, To Overthrow The Execrable System'