TY - BOOK ID - 30683685 TI - American slavery as it is AU - Weld, Theodore Dwight AU - American Anti-Slavery Society. AU - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. PY - 2011 SN - 1469602873 0807869589 0807869570 9780807869581 9781469602875 9780807869574 9798890843241 9798890843234 PB - Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC DB - UniCat KW - Slaves KW - Slavery KW - African Americans KW - Enslaved persons KW - Social conditions. KW - Eyewitness accounts KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Persons KW - History. KW - Southern States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30683685 AB - Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. It demonstrates how even prisoners - in the United States and in other countries - were significantly better fed than American slaves. ER -