Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Revolution in America At the time of the Convention (i. E. Of 1787) slavery was not the distinguishing mark between North and South, for the Northern States had slaves just as much as their Southern neighbours had.* There was one exception, and only one. Massachusetts had no slaves. That canny State had come to the perfectly correct conclusion that in her climate slave labour was unprofitable, and that her negroes were an inconvenience. SO she had got rid of the 'peculiar institution by converting them from slaves into. Freemen? No; into cash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.