Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833)

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Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833)
Lydia Maria Child
But if slaves were allowed to redeem themselves progressively, by purchasing one day of the week after another, as they can in the Spanish colonies, habits of industry would be gradually formed, and enterprise would be stimulated, by their successful efforts to acquire a little property. And if they afterward worked better as free laborers than they now do as slaves, it would surely benefit their masters as well as themselves. . . .
But the slave holders try to stop all the efforts of benevolence, by vociferous complains about infringing upon their property; and justice is so subordinate to self-interest, that the unrighteous claim is silently allowed, and even openly supported, by those who ought to blush for themselves, as Christians and as republicans. . . .
-In her writing, Child chides slave owners for

• A) economic greed and religious hypocrisy.
• B) paternalistic attitudes.
• C) their failure to incorporate Spanish labor systems.
• D) being supporters of the Democrats.

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