Yaradee: A Plea for Africa, in Familiar Conversations on the Subject of Slavery and Colonization

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This little volume is thrown before the world without the usual array of names to sustain its claims to consideration. Its pretensions are not lofty: it refers to the importance of its subject, and with the solemn assurance that it has been written without any subserviency to party views, and without any unkind designs, it relies on the candor of the reader. The writer has followed the honest convictions of his own mind, and in connexion with facts that are indisputable, has expressed views which are the conscientious result of much reflection, personal observation, and a long residence and extensive acquaintance at the South. He may have formed an erroneous judgment in some things pertaining to the subject, for "to err is human," and he lays no claim to infallibility; but he loves truth, and has truly aimed at impartiality. If, on the one hand, he is constrained to admit a liability to bias from "northern prejudice," he can sincerely say that, on the other hand, his warm admiration of the southern character and his affection for southern friends unite an all-sufficient counteracting influence. He is fully aware that as these pages savor none of party, they will not find favor with the ultras of any opinion; and he conceives it more than possible that some of opposing sentiments may each suppose that the writer favors the views of the other: if, however, whilst some disapprove and condemn without cause, or are severe in criticism, the more candid approve, the writer will not complain. That these pages may do good, is the anxious wish of one who loves his country and sympathizes with his brethren in whatever part of the country, and also pities Africa and her oppressed children.

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