American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand WitnessesAmerican Anti-Slavery Society, 1839 - 224 страница |
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Страница 117 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Страница 117 - 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.
Страница 52 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Страница 53 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest,
Страница 32 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Страница 58 - Many of the white people in those provinces take little or no care of negro marriages; and when negroes marry after their own way, some make so little account of those marriages that with views of outward interest they often part men from their wives by selling them far asunder, which is common when estates are sold by executors at vendue.
Страница 167 - Brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives, are torn asunder, and permitted to see each other no more. These acts are daily occurring in the midst of us.
Страница 58 - Many whose labor is heavy being followed at their business in the field by a man with a whip, hired for that purpose, have in common little else allowed but one peck of Indian, corn and some...
Страница 148 - Be it enacted, &c., that if any person shall hereafter be guilty of wilfully and maliciously killing a slave, such offender shall, upon the first conviction thereof, be adjudged .guilty of murder, and shall suffer the same punishment as if he had killed a free man : provided always this act shall not extend to the person killing a slave outlawed by virtue of any act of assembly of this state, or to any slave in the act of resistance to his lawful owner or master, or to any slave dying under moderate...
Страница 152 - Ran away, a negro woman and two children; a few days before she went off, I burnt her with a hot iron, on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter M.