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... Negroes- Destitution - Organization of the Anti - Slavery Society in Canada 1851- Negro Settlements in British North America - Political Events in the United States - Effect on the Extension of Slavery - Sympathy for the Refugee John ...
... Negroes- Destitution - Organization of the Anti - Slavery Society in Canada 1851- Negro Settlements in British North America - Political Events in the United States - Effect on the Extension of Slavery - Sympathy for the Refugee John ...
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... negroes from Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick are said to have availed themselves of this opportunity.3 At the termination of the American War of Independence the total number of United Empire Loyalists , including men , women and ...
... negroes from Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick are said to have availed themselves of this opportunity.3 At the termination of the American War of Independence the total number of United Empire Loyalists , including men , women and ...
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... negroes have never been numerically strong . This fact may partly account for the failure of the legislature of that province to pass any legislation on the subject of slavery . Petitions were presented to the House of Assembly to ...
... negroes have never been numerically strong . This fact may partly account for the failure of the legislature of that province to pass any legislation on the subject of slavery . Petitions were presented to the House of Assembly to ...
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... negroes call rock and our land of promise . ' The number of negroes who went north to British America , however , remained relatively insignificant . 66 9 4 As far back as 1787 , the federal constitution had safe- guarded property ...
... negroes call rock and our land of promise . ' The number of negroes who went north to British America , however , remained relatively insignificant . 66 9 4 As far back as 1787 , the federal constitution had safe- guarded property ...
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... negroes , for the free colored person , as well as the escaped slave , no longer felt secure in the northern states . The free negroes who remained in the United States preferred to reside in the states bordering on Canada , to which ...
... negroes , for the free colored person , as well as the escaped slave , no longer felt secure in the northern states . The free negroes who remained in the United States preferred to reside in the states bordering on Canada , to which ...
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Page 61 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; 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 77 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 113 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
Page 42 - I do not think that that time is yet approaching. But let us make them as far as possible fit to govern themselves ; let us give them, as far as we can, the capacity of ruling their own affairs ; let them increase in wealth and population ; and, whatever may happen, we of this great empire shall have the consolation of saying that we have contributed to the happiness of the world.
Page 177 - On Lake Ontario, to one vessel, not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. •' On the upper lakes, to two vessels, not exceeding like burden each, and armed with like force.
Page 49 - Island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore ; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those, colonies and the islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Page 43 - You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them to believe that, without severing the bonds which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain the degree of perfection, and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire.
Page 40 - American gentlemen, there was not a man who signed that manifesto who had any more serious idea of seeking annexation with the United States than a petulant child who strikes his nurse has of deliberately murdering her.
Page 197 - I make the assertion that no consideration of finance, no question of balance for or against them, upon interchange of commodities, can have any influence upon the loyalty of the inhabitants of the British Provinces, or tend in the slightest degree to alienate the affections of the people from their country, their institutions, their Government and their QUEEN. There is not a...
Page 55 - Self-government would be utterly annihilated if the views of the imperial government were to be preferred to those of the people of Canada.