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Title: Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America

Author: Moses Grandy

Release Date: February 13, 2005 [EBook #15036]

Language: English

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NARRATIVE

OF THE

LIFE OF MOSES GRANDY,

LATE A SLAVE

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

"Slavery is a mass, a system of enormities, which
incontrovertibly bids defiance to every regulation which
ingenuity can devise, or power effect, but a TOTAL
EXTINCTION. Why ought slavery to be abolished? Because
_it is incurable injustice_. Why is injustice to remain
for a single hour?"
WILLIAM PITT.

SECOND AMERICAN FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION.

SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS RELATIONS STILL IN
SLAVERY.

BOSTON:

OLIVER JOHNSON, 25 CORNHILL.

1844.

*** It is not improbable that some of the proper names in the
following pages are incorrectly spelled. M.G., through the laws of the
slave states, is perfectly illiterate; his pronunciation being the
only guide.

INTRODUCTION.

About a fortnight ago, the subject of the following brief Memoir came
to me, bearing with him a letter from a dear friend and distinguished
abolitionist in the United States, from which the following is an
extract:--'I seize my pen in haste to gratify a most worthy colored
friend of mine, by giving him a letter of introduction to you, as he
intends sailing this week (August 8th, 1842) for Liverpool and London,
_via_ New Orleans. His name is Moses Grandy. He knows what it is to
have been a slave, and what are the tender mercies of the southern
slave-drivers. His history is not only authentic, but most
extraordinary, and full of thrilling interest. Could it be published,
it would make a deep sensation in every quarter. He was compelled to
buy