Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America
By Moses Grandy
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Moses Grandy
Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Grandy had to purchase his freedom three times due to dishonest masters.
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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America - Moses Grandy
Narrative of the Life
of Moses Grandy,
Late a Slave in the
United States of
America
Moses Grandy
A DocSouth Books Edition
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Chapel Hill
A DocSouth Books Edition, 2011
ISBN 978-0-8078-6951-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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[Title Page Image]
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 incontrovertably bids defiance to every regulation which ingenuity can devise, or power effect, but a Total Extinction. Why ought slavery be abolished? Because it is incurable injustice. Why is injustice to remain for a single hour?
William Pitt.
PUBLISHED AND SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS RELATIONS STILL IN SLAVERY.
LONDON:
C. GILPIN, 5, BISHOPSGATE-STREET.
1843.
[Page verso]It is not improbable that some of the proper names in the following pages are incorrectly spelled. M. G., owing to the laws of the slave states, being perfectly illiterate, his pronunciation is the only guide.
DUBLIN:
PRINTED BY WEBB AND CHAPMAN, GREAT BRUNSWICK -ST.
[Page iii]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 coloured 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 [Page iv] interest. Could it published, it would make a deep sensation in every quarter. He was compelled to buy his freedom three times over! He paid for it 1850 dollars (nearly £400 sterling). He has since bought his wife, and one or two of his children; and before going, to England will first go to New Orleans, to purchase some of his other children if he can find them, who are still held in captivity. His benevolence, affection, kindness of heart, and elasticity of spirit are truly remarkable. He has a good head, a fine countenance, and a great spirit, notwithstanding his education has been obtained in the horrible school of slavery. Just get him to tell you his narrative, and if you happen to have an Anti-slavery Meeting, let him tell his tale to a British audience." In