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The Revival Of The Slave Trade

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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_ The Albany Argus says the competition benveen Macsaehüsetts and the other States ior the purchase of negro contrabande lor t!.o irrny ís havïftg the effeot of raising the price o! the article. Musaohnsetts has híd the beuetit of -arly ite!Iigenc, :i secret uuderstanding witli the governuient, and the pbk ■of the market ! Theee freedmeu, so callee!, 'ive in cnmps ítnd iro fec! upon, govcrmnent rutrons, cannot traval with out pús'ports, nor Önd emp'oyraect ïuffïcieii1. to live upon. When'thév aro Ríujtfed for the army thercfore "thuy have no alterna! ive, aWl no power e:f resístame, and tiioy are brouoht in in droves. The anny when they are once ts. 8vs teBfokl tho labor.-, t!io ton-ors. 8t)d the dang-ers of tho plant-alion. - They do not come in wíMingly. Thev have to bo hunfed throuyhout the neihborhiiods, and to be caught and tied, arrd are brought in coffl.'s, as on tfhe Kíuinef. ceast, to tho reeruiting depots. Th-e M'irwiW'Hiarntíi'B ol tho negro to meet hit" liótralov W l'esinning to excite tbo wonder snd tuiger of the philnnthropiets who are just now williny to libélate him not nnly íroin his oppressom, but f'rom ufe í1so.

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Old News
Michigan Argus