Digital Bibliography of Delaware Database

Government and Administration: a Sermon...

Aikman, William

1863

Wilmington (Del.)

New York city draft riots.

Monograph

12 pages.

New York.; Politics and government.

https://library.udel.edu/dbdd/?R=5527

The Future of the Colored Race in America.

Aikman, William

1862

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Reprinted from: Presbyterian Quarterly Review, July 1862. LCP 194. OCLC 12339329 [7]. Blockson 9461 [NY printing]. Aikman insightfully discusses the causes and motivations of the ongoing War. Whatever its outcome, ""the future condition of the colored race in this country will be the question over-mastering all others for many years to come."" The slave aristocracy controls the South. ""As slavery called this aristocracy into being, and created its power, so it holds it in being; anything which strikes at slavery strikes at the root of this power; to destroy slavery would be to blot it out of existence. Around this point the whole contest is waged..."" And, therefore, slavery ""will never be given voluntarily up."" Only ""irresistible force"" will extinguish it: ""it will die only as it is killed."" On the treatment of freed slaves, he eviscerates the argument for colonization, arguing that its purpose was mainly to strengthen slavery by removing the Free Negro population. In any event, as a practical matter ""they cannot be sent away."" Aikman's insightfulness now deserts him, predictions for their future becoming fuzzy and tinged with the racism of the time. A New York edition, far more common, was also printed.

Monograph

35 pages.

African Americans.; Politics and government.

https://library.udel.edu/dbdd/?R=5258