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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... received its being from the latitudes to which the divinely appointed wave of dispersion bore them ; and their subsequent racial character was to borrow its tone and color from climateric influences . Three great families , the She ...
... received its being from the latitudes to which the divinely appointed wave of dispersion bore them ; and their subsequent racial character was to borrow its tone and color from climateric influences . Three great families , the She ...
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... received new blood and energy . School - buildings and churches rose on every hand . Commerce was revived , and even agriculture received more skil- ful attention . Peace and and plenty began to abound . Every thing wore a sunny smile ...
... received new blood and energy . School - buildings and churches rose on every hand . Commerce was revived , and even agriculture received more skil- ful attention . Peace and and plenty began to abound . Every thing wore a sunny smile ...
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... receiving a rent for the ground on which the English had their fort and government buildings , grew so in- tolerably abusive towards their neighbors , the ... received . A - treaty was made . The rent that the Fantis THE ASHANTEE EMPIRE . 39.
... receiving a rent for the ground on which the English had their fort and government buildings , grew so in- tolerably abusive towards their neighbors , the ... received . A - treaty was made . The rent that the Fantis THE ASHANTEE EMPIRE . 39.
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... receiving for ground occupied by the English - four ounces of gold per month was to be paid to the king of Ashantee , as ... received a hearty welcome at the court , and was enter- tained with the most lavish kindness . After long and ...
... receiving for ground occupied by the English - four ounces of gold per month was to be paid to the king of Ashantee , as ... received a hearty welcome at the court , and was enter- tained with the most lavish kindness . After long and ...
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... received him as the champion of their declining fortunes , and did every thing in their power to give him an unfriendly opinion of the Ashantees . The king of the Ashantees began to lose faith in the British . His faithful messenger ...
... received him as the champion of their declining fortunes , and did every thing in their power to give him an unfriendly opinion of the Ashantees . The king of the Ashantees began to lose faith in the British . His faithful messenger ...
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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.