p. 7 | Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 11, 1903

Note and Comment

In an editorial under the heading, “The New Slavery,” the New York Times says of the peonage and convict camp systems which exist in parts of the South:—

That system is evidently enough a revival of the old slavery, without any of the mitigations which domestic intimacy made in the old slavery. The “convict camp system” in vogue in Georgia is likewise the reproduction of all the horrors and barbarities of the old system, without any of the features which went far to redeem and humanize that system. Peonage in Alabama, convict labor in Georgia, both these systems are slavery at its very worst.

Statements like this are sufficient to dispose of an objection sometimes urged against the view held by Seventh-day Adventists, that slavery will exist in the land at the close of probation.