Old Anti Slavery Days

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331226086
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Old Anti-Slavery Days written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Anti-Slavery Days: Proceedings of the Commemorative Meeting, Held by the Danvers Historical Society, at the Town Hall, Danvers, April 26, 1893, With Introduction, Letters and Sketches The anti-slavery enterprise, in its whole inception and aim, its progress and development, and its ultimate success, was, as ilias often and truly been said, one of the grandest moral move ments in the centuries and in view of the fact that it belongs to the history of our own country, while its effects and influences reach out, more and more, far beyond our territorial limits, it wvould seem that here indeed is a matter for inquiry and consider ation on the part of such of our American societies as profess to ee, or are supposed to be, devoted to the study of the past, how ever little, as yet, they have given their attention to it. No subject, no event, no epoch, no chapter of our national annals, can more properly claim their thought and research, and none mm more abundantly reward investigation. But especially desir able and important is it, to gather up the necessary materials for the story, while so many of the real actors in the drama still sur vive and are able to give their testimony and relate their personal experience or recollections in relation to it. Such contributions are of exceptional and incalculable value. In the not distant future they may not be given as now, and it is plainly the duty of our societies, large or small, older or younger, to do what they can and may to procure and put on record facts or memories of the con ict which are more or less likely to be forgotten or aiegleeted, but which should be made to live and fulfil their appro priate ministry. The Danvers meeting, while of course it re hearsed much that was alreadv well known, had also the merit ordistinction of eliciting much that was fresh and new. And thus of helping, in some humble way, to the desired result. Many of those who were there, thirty years after the Proclamation of Eman cipation by President Lincoln, must have realized that thev were gaining some better view and sense of the nature of slavery and of the power that contended against it and brought it to destruc tion, than they had had before they came together. Nor was the meeting less helpful to this end because it was so free and popu lar in its spirit and abounded so much in personal allusions and remembrances and earnest sentiment and feeling, instead of being occupied with some formal and labored historical or philosophical disquisition on the general subject. It answered its purpose best, because it was so vivid a life-picture of what it sought to recall and commemorate. As such, it was a true and genuine study of history itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."