The Way a Virginian Treated a New Englander
| Illustration for November—Eleventh Month, The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838, N. Southard, Editor (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, Vol. I, No. 3). Caption: "Many of the northern States have refused to grant to their own citizens a trial by jury, lest slaveholders should have too much trouble in stealing men. Massachusetts, and New Jersy are the only exceptions. [See opposite page.]" Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University. |