How do you do? I am very excited to be writing to you today because I just read an amazing book. There is a new book out on the market called Twelve Years a Slave, an autobiography written by a fellow named Soloman Northup. I have found what we were looking for and perfect proof to support us in our fight against slavery. This is our chance to abolish slavery, once and for all. I am sure of it this time. We can use Northup as our witness and he can speak out against all the injustices done to slaves and how inhumane it is to victimize our fellow Americans in such a brutal way.
             Americans are already fearing the dangers posed by abolitionists, so this is our chance to show them what we can do. Northup was an educated literate man who worked in upstate New York and was brutally kidnapped and brutally sold into slavery in Louisiana. He had to spend twelve years of his life, away from his wife and three kids, serving masters and being a slave when he was born a free man. After reading Northup's book, I'm sure it will arouse sympathy of readers and promote humanitarianism, as well as emphasize the cruelty of individual slave owners. Even President John Adams, who owned almost two-hundred slaves, is fearing abolitionists and contradicting himself. In a letter he wrote to two abolitionists he wrote, "Never in my life did I own a slave. The Abolition of Slavery must be gradual and accomplished with much caution and Circumspection. Violent means and measures would produce greater violations of Justice and Humanity than the continuance of the practice." Adams seems to be giving the abolitionists hope so they will not revolt in violence and anger. He also points out that, "I might even add that I have been informed that the condition of the common sort of White People in some of the Southern states particularly Virginia, is more oppressed, degraded and miserable than that of the Negroes...." His to...