The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1 |
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... negroes- had been revived , or reintroduced , on the northern coast of the Mediterra- nean , by Moorish traders , about the Tenth Century , and began to make its way among Spanish and Portu- guese Christians somewhere near the middle of ...
... negroes- had been revived , or reintroduced , on the northern coast of the Mediterra- nean , by Moorish traders , about the Tenth Century , and began to make its way among Spanish and Portu- guese Christians somewhere near the middle of ...
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... negroes into Europe . " - Ibid . , p . 166 . 3 " Columbus himself did not escape the stain . Enslaving five hundred native Americans , he sent them to Spain , that they might be publicly sold at Seville . " - Ibid . 4 " In 1500 , the ...
... negroes into Europe . " - Ibid . , p . 166 . 3 " Columbus himself did not escape the stain . Enslaving five hundred native Americans , he sent them to Spain , that they might be publicly sold at Seville . " - Ibid . 4 " In 1500 , the ...
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... negroes on the coast of Guinea , and selling them in the American colonies of their own and other nations . The early colonists of Virginia were mainly adventurers of an unusually bad type - bankrupt prodigals , gen- teel spendthrifts ...
... negroes on the coast of Guinea , and selling them in the American colonies of their own and other nations . The early colonists of Virginia were mainly adventurers of an unusually bad type - bankrupt prodigals , gen- teel spendthrifts ...
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... negroes appears to have come before the English courts , it was held , ' that , being usually bought and sold among mer- chants as merchandise , and also being infidels , there might be a property in them sufficient to maintain trover ...
... negroes appears to have come before the English courts , it was held , ' that , being usually bought and sold among mer- chants as merchandise , and also being infidels , there might be a property in them sufficient to maintain trover ...
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... commanders , thousands of the negroes escaped to British camps and garrisons , and were there Emissary to England . George Mason was one of Virginia's most illustrious sons . manumitted and protected ; while the master race , alarmed.
... commanders , thousands of the negroes escaped to British camps and garrisons , and were there Emissary to England . George Mason was one of Virginia's most illustrious sons . manumitted and protected ; while the master race , alarmed.
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