A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. Illustrated with Engravingsauthor., 1817 - 94 страница |
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... individual , but because " we ought not to shrink from the investigation of truth , however unpopular , nor conceal it whatever the profession of it may cost , " * a concise sketch will be presented , of the facts and incidents which ...
... individual , but because " we ought not to shrink from the investigation of truth , however unpopular , nor conceal it whatever the profession of it may cost , " * a concise sketch will be presented , of the facts and incidents which ...
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... our missionaries . This is what in any other case , would be called close reasoning , and is too mortifying a fact to make further observations upon . " the case with every individual , whose rule of action 14 PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY ,
... our missionaries . This is what in any other case , would be called close reasoning , and is too mortifying a fact to make further observations upon . " the case with every individual , whose rule of action 14 PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY ,
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... individual , whose rule of action is not founded upon wisdom and virtue , ) voluntarily and almost invariably , confounds right with might , and when stimulated by avarice , frequently hesitates not to bind and sell his wife , his ...
... individual , whose rule of action is not founded upon wisdom and virtue , ) voluntarily and almost invariably , confounds right with might , and when stimulated by avarice , frequently hesitates not to bind and sell his wife , his ...
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... individual , ( who prefers sport and extravagance to prudence and happiness ) becomes possessor of 1000 slaves , and 10,000 acres of ground ; if he bequeaths his estate to ten heirs , they will receive each 1000 acres of ground and ...
... individual , ( who prefers sport and extravagance to prudence and happiness ) becomes possessor of 1000 slaves , and 10,000 acres of ground ; if he bequeaths his estate to ten heirs , they will receive each 1000 acres of ground and ...
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... individual bles- sed with health , an infallible source of competence and wealth . As our all - wise Creator has fitted our organiza- tion , individually , to the acquirement of the means of subsistence , without depending on the labor ...
... individual bles- sed with health , an infallible source of competence and wealth . As our all - wise Creator has fitted our organiza- tion , individually , to the acquirement of the means of subsistence , without depending on the labor ...
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Страница 63 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Страница 51 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Страница 70 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.
Страница 59 - It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an Almighty hand.
Страница 63 - That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Страница 41 - Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn?
Страница 74 - I presumed to put my hand upon it. After this, some of them went away with my horse, and the remainder stood considering whether they should leave me quite naked, or allow me something to shelter me from the sun. Humanity at last prevailed: they returned me the worst of the two shirts, and a pair of...
Страница 63 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.