William F. Talbott Quotes
$1200 to $1250 FOR NEGROES The undersigned wishes to purchase a lot of NEGROES for the New Orleans market. I will pay $1200 to $1250 for No. 1 young men, and $850 to $1000 for No. 1 young women.
William F. Talbott, ?, Kentucky Slave Trader, Advertisement Placed in several newspapers, Lexington, Kentucky, July 2, 1853
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He was also himself a ship owner in the slave trade and he was the brother of the leading Rhode Island abolitionist, Moses Brown. See {585793}. Brown became the first American, prosecuted in federal court for illegal slave trading –-- a prosecution brought, in part, by his own brother. He was, however, acquitted.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 white men. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find.
The phrase “give him a call” is interesting before the telephone. The ad gave a general area where he hunted and might be found. Potential customers were to go to that general area and “give him a call” vocally.
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
The perception of the necessity of slavery was evident very early in the South.
Louisiana to this day has a different legal system from the rest of the United States as it was originally based on the French Napoleonic Code. Most people did not realize that Louisiana had strictures against breaking up families—even with slaves.
Jefferson had calculated that if he allowed slaves to “breed”, he could realize a profit of 4% a year just from the increase of the number of slaves he owned. He recommended the business of breeding slaves to several people, and at this time showed no moral compunction about slavery.
Generally, Jefferson was not in favor of whipping slaves, but this quotation shows that he essentially accepted the basic principles of Southern Slavery—including the one that says if the person does not want to work for you, you may whip, beat, or torture him or her to produce “reasonable work.” This acceptance of slavery and profiting from it, is the terrible blot on the record of the man who otherwise was among the few greatest of Americans.
Many historians of higher education to not agree with Wilder’s overall generality. However, it was certainly the case that slavery was a major factor in generating the funds for some early universities in the North, but others were “hotbeds” of abolition from their very inception.
Incredibly, the judges received a higher fee if they found that an accused Negro was a fugitive slave and must be returned, than if he found that it was a case of mistaken identity or the laws of the northern state allowed mandated freedom. Despite the bias, the moral issue was so profound that many Northern judges refused to return fugitive slaves, even after the Fugitive Slave Act.
The “lords of the lash” were the Southern slave owners. The “lords of the loom” were the Northern mill owners. The Southern cotton, grown by cheap slave labor was sold to the Northern mill owners at very low prices. They in turn wove the cotton into cloth and sold it throughout the nation and to foreign countries. So, although there was strong Northern anti-slavery sentiment, the wealthy and politically powerful mill owners had a vested interest in maintaining slavery in the South.
