Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States
Robert Dale Owen
28 chapters · 7 h 27 min · English
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"The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission where he served. It traces the early beginnings of the slave trade from its English beginning to the United States Civil War. It puts a focus on the barbarism of the slave trade from capture and transportation to the arrival in the Americas, the extreme cruelties that took place in the West Indies and South America, facts about slavery in the United States, and the advantages of a freed black population to the South. (Summary by mleigh)
Chapters
1 Preface 10 min 2 Introduction 2 min 3 Part 1, chapter 1: As A Labor System 4 min 4 Part 1, chapter 2: Enslavement of Indians 11 min 5 Part 1, chapter 3: Substitution of the African for the Indian 5 min 6 Part 1, chapter 4: Number of Slaves shipped from Africa 18 min 7 Part 1, chapter 5: How Slaves were obtained in Africa 13 min 8 Part 1, chapter 6: How Slaves were transported from Africa 26 min 9 Part 1, chapter 7: What became of the Imported Slaves 29 min 10 Part 1, chapter 8: Strangely contrasting Fate of the Two diverging Streams 26 min 11 Part 1, chapter 9: Touching the Causes of certain Marvellous Results 11 min 12 Part 1, chapter 10: Was there a Failure and a Success? 48 min 13 Part 1, chapter 11: The Great Lesson 8 min 14 Part 2, chapter 1: A Mixed Question of Constitutional and International Law 6 min 15 Part 2, chapter 2: Constitutional Aspect of what is called Slave-Property 22 min 16 Part 2, chapter 3, section 1: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Insurrectionary States 1 h 2 min 17 Part 2, chapter 3, section 2: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Insurrectionary States 39 min 18 Part 2, chapter 4: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Loyal Slave States 18 min 19 Part 3, chapter 1: Forebodings Regarding the Fate of the Negro 6 min 20 Part 3, chapter 2: Do we need the Aid of the Negro as a Loyal Citizen? 10 min 21 Part 3, chapter 3: Can the Negro, as Freedman, maintain himself? 10 min 22 Part 3, chapter 4: The Emancipated Negro will make the South his Home 8 min 23 Part 3, chapter 5: Amalgamation 19 min 24 Part 3, chapter 6: Reciprocal Social Influence of the Races on each other 6 min 25 Part 3, chapter 7: Importance, Nationally, that the Negro be treated with Justice 8 min 26 Part 3, chapter 8: The Freedman needs mere Temporary Aid and Supervision 5 min 27 Part 3, chapter 9: The Sum of our Duty towards the Negro Race 2 min 28 Appendix 14 min
