The Future Of The Colored Race In America - Tapa dura

No man understood this so well or so soon as the great Nullifier. He was a thinker and a philosopher, and so with great logical consistency he became the early author of the doctrine of slavery as now almost universally held at the South. He startled and shocked the men of his time by his bold positions in respect to that institution, and was far in advance of his time in his assertions of its inherent rightfulness, and the determination not only to terminate, but to extend, strengthen and perpetuate it. He was a nullifier because a slave-holder in principle.

William Aikman (1824-1909) was an American author and pastor. He was a Presbyterian minister and a Pastor at the Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware. He also lived in New York City and Detroit. Aikman was a great campaigner for the rights of blacks in America, which he discusses in his book, The Future of the Coloured Race in America (1862). It reviews the system of slavery in the United States and the course of first year of the Civil War.