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1 Francis Lieber, Plantations for Slave Labor: The Death of the Yeomanry 1 (1863)

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PLANTATIONS FOR SLAVE LABOR

        THE DEATH OF THE YEOMANRY.

                BY FRANCIS LIEBER, LD.



       Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
       Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

                     And what man seeing this,
        And having human feelings, does not blush
        And hang his head, to think himself a man!
        I would not have a slave to till my ground,
        To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
        And tremble wren I wake, for all the wealth
        That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.

   A PORTION of a work, published some years ago by
 Mr. Joseph Kay in England, has recently been repub-
 lished in America, under the title, Social Condition and
 Education of the People in England. It forms as issued
 here, a duodecimo volume of some three hundred pages,
 and ought to be in the hands of every thinking Ameri-
 can at the present period of our heaving struggle. It is
 a book not only to be conned by the statesman and le-
 gislator, and to be weighed by the philosophical student
 of history, but also to be read and digested by every
 conscientious citizen and participator in our great insti-

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