Tennessee, June 8, 1867

Did the Northern States ever have the institution of slavery? Yes.

Did they free their slaves? No.

How did they get rid of their slaves? They sold their slaves to the people of the South.

Why did they discontinue slavery in their midst? Because it paid better to sell their slaves than to keep them.

Did they make any provisions for the future freedom of their slaves when they sold them? No.

What states were chiefly involved in the slave trade? The Northern states.

Did they continue to trade after slavery was abolished in their midst? Yes, they continued it until the commencement of the war.

What prompted the rebellion in the South? An assurance that the very men from whom originally the Southern people purchased their slaves, after being stole from Africa, were determined to release them without a restitution of their own ill-gotten gains in the premises, and to make use of the Freedmen as tools, in order to perpetuate their own political supremacy.

Have the fears of the South been realized? Yes
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