The Rising Son: Or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race |
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... friends of freedom in Great Britain . The President of the above Society gave him private letters to some of the leading men and women in Europe . In addition to these , the colored citizens of Boston held a meeting the evening previous ...
... friends of freedom in Great Britain . The President of the above Society gave him private letters to some of the leading men and women in Europe . In addition to these , the colored citizens of Boston held a meeting the evening previous ...
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... friends of the cause of freedom greeted him . The land of Burke , Sheridan , and O'Connell would not permit the American to leave without giving him a public welcome . A large and enthusiastic meeting held in the Rotunda , and pre ...
... friends of the cause of freedom greeted him . The land of Burke , Sheridan , and O'Connell would not permit the American to leave without giving him a public welcome . A large and enthusiastic meeting held in the Rotunda , and pre ...
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... friend Brown went abroad ; I rejoice still more that he has returned . The years any thoughtful man spends abroad must enlarge his mind and store it richly . But such a visit is to a colored man more than merely intellectual education ...
... friend Brown went abroad ; I rejoice still more that he has returned . The years any thoughtful man spends abroad must enlarge his mind and store it richly . But such a visit is to a colored man more than merely intellectual education ...
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... friend for the fidelity with which he has , amid many temptations , stood by those whose good name religious prejudice ... friends there that this is what the Abolitionists of Boston endorse . " Mr. Phillips proceeded : - " I still more ...
... friend for the fidelity with which he has , amid many temptations , stood by those whose good name religious prejudice ... friends there that this is what the Abolitionists of Boston endorse . " Mr. Phillips proceeded : - " I still more ...
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... friend , to labor , crushed and despised , for his race , sails under a higher flag . His motto is , - ' Where my country is , there will I bring liberty ! ' " Although Dr. Brown could have entered upon the practice of his profession ...
... friend , to labor , crushed and despised , for his race , sails under a higher flag . His motto is , - ' Where my country is , there will I bring liberty ! ' " Although Dr. Brown could have entered upon the practice of his profession ...
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Page 339 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 339 - ... and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 341 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 339 - 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 241 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust...
Page 300 - I should return to the service of my earthly master, " for he who knoweth his Master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and thus have I chastened you.
Page 340 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
Page 463 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 241 - Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 340 - I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free, and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.