A Defence of Virginia, and through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests against the Sectional Party (Biblia.com)

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The 13th amendment to the Constitution, officially abolishing slavery in the United States of America, was passed in December of 1865 after over two centuries of slavery in this young country. Two years later, Dabney published A Defence of Virginia, a litigious document expressing the other viewpoint to a subject so intensely dividing that it sparked the American Civil War. Exposing an opposing...

In pleasing contrast with these enormities, stands the contemporaneous legislation of the Colony of Virginia touching its Indian neighbours. By three acts, 1655 to 1657, the colonists were strictly forbidden to trespass upon the lands of the Indians, or to dispossess them of their homes even by purchase. Slaying an Indian for his trespass was prohibited. The Indians, provided they were not armed, were authorized to pass freely through the several settlements, for trading, fishing, and gathering wild

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