A Defence of Virginia

By: Dabney, Robert Lewis

To the rational historian who, two hundred years hence, shall study the history of the nineteenth century, it will appear one of the most curious vagaries of human opinion, that the Christianity and philanthropy of our day should have given so disproportionate an attention to the evils of African slavery. Such a dispassionate observer will perceive that, while many other gigantic evils were rampant in this age, there prevailed a sort of epidemic fashion of selecting this one upon which to exhaust the virtuous indignation and sympathies of the professed friends of human amelioration. And he will probably see in this a proof that the Christianity and benevolence of the nineteenth century were not so superior, in wisdom and breadth, to those of the seventeenth and eighteenth, as the busy actors in them had persuaded themselves; but were, in fact, conceited, overweening, and fantastic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PVSF98
• ISBN13: 9798633366488
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"