Slavery in America, Թողարկում 14Thomas Price Negro History Press, 1837 |
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... feeling has been exhibited against it . Even at the present moment , the active op- ponents of slavery form but a small proportion of the people of the north ; and in the south , scarcely such a man is to be found ; and those who are ...
... feeling has been exhibited against it . Even at the present moment , the active op- ponents of slavery form but a small proportion of the people of the north ; and in the south , scarcely such a man is to be found ; and those who are ...
Էջ 306
... feeling of asperity or jealousy or distrust , either in master or slave . 3. It is impossible to enter on the subject without immediately interfering with the politics of the land . No question now before the American people is more ...
... feeling of asperity or jealousy or distrust , either in master or slave . 3. It is impossible to enter on the subject without immediately interfering with the politics of the land . No question now before the American people is more ...
Էջ 307
... Feeling no direct or immediate responsibility to those who are peculiarly aggrieved by such remarks , they will even be wanton and cruel . We have no idea of needlessly permitting ourselves to be placed in a situation so unpleasant . 10 ...
... Feeling no direct or immediate responsibility to those who are peculiarly aggrieved by such remarks , they will even be wanton and cruel . We have no idea of needlessly permitting ourselves to be placed in a situation so unpleasant . 10 ...
Էջ 311
... feeling we never before witnessed . Heaven grant the impression may be salutary and abiding . " We sauntered slowly , one day , through the centre of mercantile operations in New York . We contrasted the present appearance of things ...
... feeling we never before witnessed . Heaven grant the impression may be salutary and abiding . " We sauntered slowly , one day , through the centre of mercantile operations in New York . We contrasted the present appearance of things ...
Էջ 313
... feeling . The amount of funds placed in the hands of the Committee has not been as great as was expected at the last anniversary . The total receipts have been 36,567 dollars 92 cents , being an increase over the receipts of last year ...
... feeling . The amount of funds placed in the hands of the Committee has not been as great as was expected at the last anniversary . The total receipts have been 36,567 dollars 92 cents , being an increase over the receipts of last year ...
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abolition abolitionism abolitionists action agent agitate the subject American Anti-Slavery Society American Panic APOLOGY FOR SLAVEHOLDING apostles ARTHUR TAPPAN Assembly Ballad body bought brethren Britain Broadway Tabernacle bushels of corn Butler county buyers Catarba River cents chain Christ Christians coloured commence commercial distress corn last cotton field countinghouse cow hide crops cruel master Darton determined devoted discourses dollars dread ELIZUR WRIGHT emancipated Escape of Moses evils exportation flog fodder friends gaol George Benson give Gooch Hammans industry justify labour land and lot master in heaven ment merchant minister mobocratic months ago Moses Roper narrative negroes never North Orleans paper planters political preacher prejudice present producing classes purchase rents a farm says Scriptures servants severe flogging slave Slavery in America Slavery the Cause sold South southern churches southern custom SS enterprise star-spangled banner statements take me back task things thousands tion Upper Canada Vale of Leven wish
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Էջ 319 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Էջ 319 - THROUGH divine goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences, of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring and protecting reputation and property, and, in general, of attaining objects suitable to their condition, without injury by one to another ; and as these rights are essential to their welfare...
Էջ 319 - All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness.
Էջ 309 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Էջ 319 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.
Էջ 310 - Orleans editor describes the effects of the money-pressure upon the planters, as follows : " They are now left without provisions, and the means of living and using their industry for the present year. In this dilemma, planters, whose crops have been from 100 to 700 bales, find themselves forced to sacrifice many of...
Էջ 318 - My master's cruelty was not confined to me, it was his general conduct to all his slaves. I might relate many instances to substantiate this, but will confine myself to one or two.
Էջ 318 - Catholic Church no distinction is made. Mr. Gooch had a slave named Phil, who was a member of a Methodist Church; this man was between seventy and eighty years of age; he was so feeble that he could not accomplish his tasks, for which his master used to chain him round the neck, and run him down a steep hill; this treatment he never relinquished to the time of his death. Another case was that of a slave, named Peter, who, for not doing his task, he flogged nearly to death, and afterwards pulled out...
Էջ 320 - ... firmness the interests of the denomination. 5. That the members of this Association feel unabated anxiety for the speedy abolition of Slavery in the United States of America, and again affectionately and strongly urge upon their brethren in that country the duty of exerting all their influence to remove so great an evil ; at the same time expressing a fervent hope, that on no occasion, and by no party, carnal passions may be substituted for those spiritual weapons which are "mighty through God...
Էջ 309 - that no man nor set of men in our day, unless they can produce a new Revelation from Heaven, are entitled to pronounce Slavery wrong;' and that ' Slavery as it exists at the present day is agreeable to the order of Divine Providence.