The Rising Son: Or, The Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race |
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... taken to the State of Missouri in infancy , and spent his boyhood in St. Louis . At the age of ten years he was hired out to a captain of a steamboat running between St. Louis and New Orleans , where he remained a year or two , and was ...
... taken to the State of Missouri in infancy , and spent his boyhood in St. Louis . At the age of ten years he was hired out to a captain of a steamboat running between St. Louis and New Orleans , where he remained a year or two , and was ...
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... taken by surprise on the last day , when Mr. Brown made a speech . " His reception , " said La Presse , was most flattering . He admirably sustained his reputation as a public speaker . His ad- dress produced a profound sensation . At ...
... taken by surprise on the last day , when Mr. Brown made a speech . " His reception , " said La Presse , was most flattering . He admirably sustained his reputation as a public speaker . His ad- dress produced a profound sensation . At ...
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... taken my seat , when a rather snobby- appearing man , of dark complexion , looking as if a South Carolina or Georgia sun had tanned him , began ubbing his hands , and , turning up his nose , called the steward , and said to him , ' Is ...
... taken my seat , when a rather snobby- appearing man , of dark complexion , looking as if a South Carolina or Georgia sun had tanned him , began ubbing his hands , and , turning up his nose , called the steward , and said to him , ' Is ...
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... taken from the table ? ' Is it your custom , captain , ' said I , ' to let niggers sit at table with white folks on your boat ? ' " This question , together with the fact that the other passend sent for the officer , and that I had ...
... taken from the table ? ' Is it your custom , captain , ' said I , ' to let niggers sit at table with white folks on your boat ? ' " This question , together with the fact that the other passend sent for the officer , and that I had ...
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... taken my stand at the foot of the bed , I took hold of the right leg near the calf , pinched up the skin , inserted the needle , withdrew it after discharging the contents , slipped the syringe into my pocket , and cried at the top of ...
... taken my stand at the foot of the bed , I took hold of the right leg near the calf , pinched up the skin , inserted the needle , withdrew it after discharging the contents , slipped the syringe into my pocket , and cried at the top of ...
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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.