Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) written by Lancaster County Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911, Vol. 15 Slavery. In its various forms, has come down to us from the regions of dim antiquity. Its prevalence in West ern Europe was a certainty. Predes tined that it should taint the new civ ilization soon to take root and spread in the Western hemisphere. It is most natural, therefore, that our own thirteen colonies did not escape this traffic; but it is sad to note the awful price they had to pay to remove the evil once established, that price - hu manity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.