Excerpt from Caste and Slavery in the American ChurchIn the Capitol of our country free coloured men are liable to arrest, on suspicion of being fugitive slaves. If unable to prove their freedom, they are sold as Slaves: and if, after being incarcerated for weeks within the damp and gloomy walls of a prison, they succeed in obtaining the evidence of their freedom, they are still liable to be sold as slaves for life, if they are too poor to pay the jail-fees. In Ala bama a more summary law has been enacted, by which any free man of colour coming into the State after its pas sage may be seized, and held as a slave for life, by the first white man who catches him - and in Florida, a law obtains, which puts to the blush the tale of Shylock and his single pound of ¿esh. Free coloured debtors may be sold as slaves to satisfy the claim of any white creditor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.