An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers |
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... Colonies , proved by Mr. Force from the history of the Continental Association of 1774 , 25-28 . Doctrine of the Declaration of Independence re - affirmed in the Constitutions , and acted upon in the Courts , of several of the States ...
... Colonies , proved by Mr. Force from the history of the Continental Association of 1774 , 25-28 . Doctrine of the Declaration of Independence re - affirmed in the Constitutions , and acted upon in the Courts , of several of the States ...
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... colonies by the mother- country . In twelve out of the fifteen States , negro slavery existed ; and the right of property existing in slaves was protected by law . This property was recognized in the Constitution ; and provision was ...
... colonies by the mother- country . In twelve out of the fifteen States , negro slavery existed ; and the right of property existing in slaves was protected by law . This property was recognized in the Constitution ; and provision was ...
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... colonies and States were chiefly engaged in the traffic . But we know as a historical fact , that James Madison , that great and good man , a leading member in the Federal Con- vention , was solicitous to guard the language of that ...
... colonies and States were chiefly engaged in the traffic . But we know as a historical fact , that James Madison , that great and good man , a leading member in the Federal Con- vention , was solicitous to guard the language of that ...
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... colonies . Slaves were not in legal parlance persons , but property . The moment the incapa- city , the ... colony dependent on a European King , to a free and sovereign State . Slaves remained slaves . British subjects in ...
... colonies . Slaves were not in legal parlance persons , but property . The moment the incapa- city , the ... colony dependent on a European King , to a free and sovereign State . Slaves remained slaves . British subjects in ...
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... Colonies , and the author of the paper was him- self a slave - holder . Did Mr. Jefferson intend to con- demn his own conduct , and that of his associates , by announcing doctrines at variance with their lives ? In Christian morals ...
... Colonies , and the author of the paper was him- self a slave - holder . Did Mr. Jefferson intend to con- demn his own conduct , and that of his associates , by announcing doctrines at variance with their lives ? In Christian morals ...
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Page 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Page 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Page 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Page 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page xvi - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Page 49 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.