Nehemiah Adams

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Few who agitated against Southern slavery in the Nineteenth Century had ever seen it with their own eyes. Boston Abolitionist Nehemiah Adams was one of the few exceptions. His three-month sojourn among the slaveholders in South Carolina in 1854 resulted in the writing of his book, A Southside View of Slavery, in which he, though remaining anti-slavery in principle, concluded that, far from being his oppressor, the ante-bellum South was the only true benefactor the Negro ever had. He also warned his Northern brethren that a continued assault upon the South's "peculiar institution" would lead to a destruction of the Union and the ultimate ruin of the Black population in America. Needless to say, Adams' book was vigorously attacked by the Abolitionists of that day, and is completely ignored today by modern American historians.