Excerpt from The Crisis of Emancipation in America: Being a Review of the History of Emancipation, From the Beginning of the American War to the Assassination of President Lincoln But it must be remembered, in order to do justice to the greatness of the result, that the experiment has, in these Sea Islands, been tried with success in the case of a class of slaves which might have been selected as the most degraded and unfit for freedom of all the slaves of the United States. 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.