pretend only to amuse and entertain, not to edify or instruct; and that its graver chapters are either plain and simple narrations of incontestable truths, or contentions founded on the convincing experience of practice, and not arguments based on the futile reasoning of theory. TABLE OF CONTENTS. XLII. Slavery as it is-The Negro and the Peasant -Question of Emancipation...A.............. 364 XLIII. Lives of Estate Negroes-Africans and Creoles -Gradual Emancipation............................. 376 |