WORSE THAN SLAVERY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1870

WORSE THAN SLAVERY.

It is said that preparations are being made for an extensive importation of Coolies into the Southern States. To obtain these, every form of deception and fraud is already resorted to. A writer, quoted in the American Missionary, thinks this “another proof that the spirit of slavery long survives its existence as an institution.” And as to the condition of these immigrants, he says:

“I know this Coolie Immigration to be the most atrocious and cruel form of the slave trade and slavery that has ever existed, since it is worse to capture people by fraud than by force, and a slave for life is in a far better position than a slave for a short period, because in the one case it is the owner’s interest to care for him when sick, in the other, to let him die off as soon as possible. The negroes themselves say the slaves were never treated as badly as the Coolies.”