Clotel; or, the President's Daughter
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MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo
of
slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the
colony
of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the
introduction
of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of
the
Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased to
five
hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. In
fifteen
of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made lawful by the
Constitution, which binds the several States into one
confederacy.
