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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... wish Mr. Livermore success ; and I shall be happy , according to my means , in aiding him in his purpose . " In respect to the general subject of slavery , I apprehend he will find very little favorable to the institution among the ...
... wish Mr. Livermore success ; and I shall be happy , according to my means , in aiding him in his purpose . " In respect to the general subject of slavery , I apprehend he will find very little favorable to the institution among the ...
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... wishes to see an entire stop for ever put to such a wicked , cruel , and un- natural trade . " 21. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this meeting , that this and the other associating colonies should break off all trade , intercourse ...
... wishes to see an entire stop for ever put to such a wicked , cruel , and un- natural trade . " 21. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this meeting , that this and the other associating colonies should break off all trade , intercourse ...
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... wish to hold the unhappy people , who are the subject of this letter , in slavery . I can only say , that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see some plan adopted for the abolition of it : but there is only ...
... wish to hold the unhappy people , who are the subject of this letter , in slavery . I can only say , that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see some plan adopted for the abolition of it : but there is only ...
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... wish from my soul that the Legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery . It might prevent much future mischief . " " On opening the will which he had handed to Mrs. Washington shortly before his ...
... wish from my soul that the Legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery . It might prevent much future mischief . " " On opening the will which he had handed to Mrs. Washington shortly before his ...
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... wish success to your endeavors for obtaining an Early abolition of the slave - trade . The epistle from your Yearly against Meeting , for the year 1758 , was not the first sowing of the good seed you mention ; for I find , by an old ...
... wish success to your endeavors for obtaining an Early abolition of the slave - trade . The epistle from your Yearly against Meeting , for the year 1758 , was not the first sowing of the good seed you mention ; for I find , by an old ...
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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.