Excerpt from Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 4: June, 1825 Dear Brethren, we view with sympa thy and sorrow, the degradation and misery of the slaves - tied up, wounded, beat and bruised, at the will of infuriate tyrants, sometimes till death terminates their sufl'erings - robbed of the earnings of their labour - of all improvement of mind or body - the children torn from the parents, and parents fieru the children, husbands from wives. And wives from husbands - yea, we View, with horror, the female part of them subjected to brutal lust, without the least degree of legal re dress, and even without liberty to use their physical powers for their own de fence against their villainous abusers. Still mate are our minds agitated, when we know that the great mass ofthe slaves ate made subject to the iloli'id crime of incest, by their not knowing their blood relations - But disagreeable as our feel ings are, on a VIC of these things, We confess that we we more awfully and solemnly impressed with a deep solici tude in regard to the moral condition of the tyrants themselves. 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.