An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as SoldiersJ. Wilson and son, 1862 - 236 Seiten |
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... colored sea- men in the American Navy . Mr. Everett related an anecdote of an aged slave , the last of his class , showing the mildness of slavery in Massachusetts before its final extinction . Mr. WATERSTON , Secretary pro tempore of ...
... colored sea- men in the American Navy . Mr. Everett related an anecdote of an aged slave , the last of his class , showing the mildness of slavery in Massachusetts before its final extinction . Mr. WATERSTON , Secretary pro tempore of ...
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... colored infantry , raised in Connecticut by his influence before he became aid - de - camp to Wash- ington , 181 . - ( 1782. ) Letter to Lord Dunmore from Mr. Cruden , proposing a plan for raising ten thousand black troops , 182-186 ...
... colored infantry , raised in Connecticut by his influence before he became aid - de - camp to Wash- ington , 181 . - ( 1782. ) Letter to Lord Dunmore from Mr. Cruden , proposing a plan for raising ten thousand black troops , 182-186 ...
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... colored race , yet many of them were citizens of the New - England States , and exercised the rights of suffrage , when the Constitution was adopted ; and it was not doubted by any intelligent person that its tendencies would greatly ...
... colored race , yet many of them were citizens of the New - England States , and exercised the rights of suffrage , when the Constitution was adopted ; and it was not doubted by any intelligent person that its tendencies would greatly ...
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... colored persons then possessed the elective franchise , and were among those by whom the Constitution was ordained , and established . If so , it is not true , in point of fact , that the Constitution was made exclusively by the white ...
... colored persons then possessed the elective franchise , and were among those by whom the Constitution was ordained , and established . If so , it is not true , in point of fact , that the Constitution was made exclusively by the white ...
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... colored men were held in bondage . They did not attempt to conceal , much less to justify , the offence . As , in the popular religious creed of their day , all men , through Adam , had fallen from inno- cence , and were guilty ; so ...
... colored men were held in bondage . They did not attempt to conceal , much less to justify , the offence . As , in the popular religious creed of their day , all men , through Adam , had fallen from inno- cence , and were guilty ; so ...
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Seite 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Seite 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Seite 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Seite 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Seite 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Seite 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Seite xvi - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Seite xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Seite 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Seite 49 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.