History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens; Together with a Preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Human Family, an Historical Sketch of Africa, and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia, Volumes 1-2 |
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... hundred and eighteen ; while in Negro regiments of cavalry the desertions only average from six to nine per annum . The Negro regiments are composed of young men , intelligent , faithful , brave . I heard but one complaint from the lips ...
... hundred and eighteen ; while in Negro regiments of cavalry the desertions only average from six to nine per annum . The Negro regiments are composed of young men , intelligent , faithful , brave . I heard but one complaint from the lips ...
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... hundred years before Christ ; and where , separated from the rest of the world by almost impassable deserts , and enriched by the commercial expeditions of their travelling brethren , the Cushites continued to cultivate , so late as the ...
... hundred years before Christ ; and where , separated from the rest of the world by almost impassable deserts , and enriched by the commercial expeditions of their travelling brethren , the Cushites continued to cultivate , so late as the ...
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... hundred gates , another monu- ment to Negro genius and civilization , and more ancient than the cities of the Delta , -until Greece and Rome stood transfixed before the ancient glory of Ethiopia ! Homeric mythology borrowed its very ...
... hundred gates , another monu- ment to Negro genius and civilization , and more ancient than the cities of the Delta , -until Greece and Rome stood transfixed before the ancient glory of Ethiopia ! Homeric mythology borrowed its very ...
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... hundred and eighty miles in width , by two hundred in breadth . Whydah is the principal town on the seacoast . The story runs , that , about two hundred and seventy - five years ago , Tacudons , chief of the Foys , carried a siege ...
... hundred and eighty miles in width , by two hundred in breadth . Whydah is the principal town on the seacoast . The story runs , that , about two hundred and seventy - five years ago , Tacudons , chief of the Foys , carried a siege ...
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... hundred and thirty towns were united under one government . In 1853 , less than a generation , a feeble people had grown to be nearly one - 1 Savage Africa , p . 51 . 2 Western Africa , p . 207 . hundred thousand ( 100,000 ) ; and ...
... hundred and thirty towns were united under one government . In 1853 , less than a generation , a feeble people had grown to be nearly one - 1 Savage Africa , p . 51 . 2 Western Africa , p . 207 . hundred thousand ( 100,000 ) ; and ...
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Page 17 - ... provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 318 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 232 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 236 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; 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. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 273 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States...
Page 3 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 211 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 318 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred...
Page 272 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 227 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.