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One word as to the title of this book, to which we anticipate some objections.

To those who have had an opportunity at reading that costly and elaborate volume, entitled 'A Tribute for the Negro,' by Wilson Armistead, Esq., this book will afford little information that is fresh: as comparatively few, however, could have had this opportunity, it seems desirable to place before the public, in a cheap and easily accessible form, some of the most striking facts that could be collected, in refutation of the opinion, entertained, or at least urged, by some, that the Negro is essentially, and unalterably, an inferior being to those who 'Find him guilty of a darker skin.'Īnd therefore deny him the right of freedom, which is inalienably his.

The subject is one which will amply repay a very careful and lengthened investigation - one which might well engage, to the full extent of its capacity, both the philosophic and philanthropic mind. Other pressing engagements obliged the Editor to put his little work aside, from time to time, and at length to complete it more hastily than he could have wished. Stowe which has become a classic in almost every European language, and given such an impetus to the movement against Negro Slavery, as it, perhaps, never received before - never certainly from the operation of one mind and intellect. It was projected, and partly written, some time prior to the appearance of that wonderful picture of 'Life among the Lowly,' by Mrs. IS, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BYĪt the present juncture, when anti-slavery books are so rife, and, as it would, appear, so acceptable to the reading public, it is scarcely necessary to apologize for the issue of a work like the present. TO THE CAUSE OF THE OPRESSED AND DOWN-TRODDEN NEGRO.

AND OF THAT PURE PHILANTHROPY, WHICH HAS IMPELLED

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