[Anon.], ‘The Great Exhibition and American Slavery’ [editorial], Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines’ Friend (1851)

The great Exhibition of 1851, with all its thrilling interest and associations, is rapidly approaching. Specimens of the productions, industry and skill of various countries have already reached the people shores, and will soon form so marvelous a display of industrial ability and resources as is altogether unparalleled in the annals of history. The occasion will also be marked by the presence of many distinguished personages from foreign countries, and, among these, not a few from the United States. The Missouri compromise devoted immense tracts of territory to slavery, which have ever since been filling up with slaveholders and slaves. Every slave in the United States is “a chattel personal in the hands of his master, to all intents and purposes whatsoever,” and can, therefore, be sold, given away, or bequeathed, at his will or caprice.