Publisher's Synopsis
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery has raised in many thoughtful minds; viz.-Are the race at present held as slaves capable of freedom, self-government, and progress?The author is a coloured young man, born and reared in the city of Philadelphia.This city, standing as it does on the frontier be-tween free and slave territory, has accumulated naturally a large population of the mixed and Af-rican race.Being one of the nearest free cities of any con-siderable size to the slave territory, it has natural-ly been a resort of escaping fugitives, or of eman-cipated slaves.
