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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Page vii
... passed . I have given as fair an idea of the debate on this question , in the convention that framed the Constitution , as possible . It was then and there that the hydra of slavery struck its fangs into the Constitution ; and , once ...
... passed . I have given as fair an idea of the debate on this question , in the convention that framed the Constitution , as possible . It was then and there that the hydra of slavery struck its fangs into the Constitution ; and , once ...
Page xv
... passed by the General Court in 1711 , requiring Persons manumitting Slaves to maintain them.- Regulating the Social Conduct of Slaves in 1723. - The Punishment of Negro , Indian , and Mulatto Slaves , for the Use of Profane Language ...
... passed by the General Court in 1711 , requiring Persons manumitting Slaves to maintain them.- Regulating the Social Conduct of Slaves in 1723. - The Punishment of Negro , Indian , and Mulatto Slaves , for the Use of Profane Language ...
Page xix
... passed in Virginia limiting the Rights of Slaves . - Law emancipating all Slaves who served in the Army . New York promises her Negro Soldiers Freedom . A Conscientious Minority in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave - Trade . Slavery ...
... passed in Virginia limiting the Rights of Slaves . - Law emancipating all Slaves who served in the Army . New York promises her Negro Soldiers Freedom . A Conscientious Minority in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave - Trade . Slavery ...
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... passed to another generation . The new king was worthy of his illustrious family . After the days of mourning for ... passing year witnessed new triumphs . Fawning followed envy in the heart of the king of Dahomey ; and a large embassy ...
... passed to another generation . The new king was worthy of his illustrious family . After the days of mourning for ... passing year witnessed new triumphs . Fawning followed envy in the heart of the king of Dahomey ; and a large embassy ...
Page 123
... passed declaring that all Indian children brought into the colony by friendly Indians should not be treated as slaves , 5 but be instructed in the trades . By implication , then , slavery existed legally at this time ; but the act of ...
... passed declaring that all Indian children brought into the colony by friendly Indians should not be treated as slaves , 5 but be instructed in the trades . By implication , then , slavery existed legally at this time ; but the act of ...
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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.