Автор:Anonymous Год: 2009 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 202 ISBN: 9781409985952 Originally published in 1894, anonymously written, titled: The Story of a Slave: A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times - Hitherto Unwritten - From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress. "Had it been possible in the discussion of the Negro Question in the ante-bellum days as well as since to have removed its agitation from the political arena into the more penetrating light of the Forum of Reason, in which the vital questions of civilization alone find just and final settlement, what bloodshed might have been averted and what acrimony and sectional hatred might never have been aroused to disturb the peace, the prosperity and tranquillity of our country? We are told that the Civil War was inevitable. "