The Rising Son: Or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race |
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... master . Want of food , clothing , medical attention when sick , over - work , under the con- trol of drunken and heartless drivers , the hand - cuffs and Negro whip , together with the other paraphernalia of the slave - code , has done ...
... master . Want of food , clothing , medical attention when sick , over - work , under the con- trol of drunken and heartless drivers , the hand - cuffs and Negro whip , together with the other paraphernalia of the slave - code , has done ...
Page 108
... The consequence is , that the so - called wives are little better than slaves . They have no purpose in life other than to administer to the wants and gratify the passions of their lords , who are masters and owners , 108 THE RISING SON .
... The consequence is , that the so - called wives are little better than slaves . They have no purpose in life other than to administer to the wants and gratify the passions of their lords , who are masters and owners , 108 THE RISING SON .
Page 109
... masters and owners , rather than husbands . In nearly every nation or tribe , the wife is purchased ; and as this is done in the great majority of cases when she is but a child , her wishes , as a matter of course , are never consulted ...
... masters and owners , rather than husbands . In nearly every nation or tribe , the wife is purchased ; and as this is done in the great majority of cases when she is but a child , her wishes , as a matter of course , are never consulted ...
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... masters from town to town until they reached the coast , where they were sold to the owners of ships . Others located themselves on the coast and in the interior , and bought the slaves as they were brought in for sale . A chief of one ...
... masters from town to town until they reached the coast , where they were sold to the owners of ships . Others located themselves on the coast and in the interior , and bought the slaves as they were brought in for sale . A chief of one ...
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... masters and slaves , there arose the mulatto population , which eventually proved to be the worst enemics of their fathers . Many of the planters sent their malatto sons to France to be educated . When these young men returned to the ...
... masters and slaves , there arose the mulatto population , which eventually proved to be the worst enemics of their fathers . Many of the planters sent their malatto sons to France to be educated . When these young men returned to the ...
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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.