The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Collateral Proof of Slavery, from the First to the Eleventh Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law ; and from the Fact of Christ Being a Caucasian, Owing to His Peculiar Parentage ; Progress of Slavery South and South-west, with Free Labor Advancing, Thorugh the Acquisition of Territory ; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 595 pages |
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... living , the food eaten by them , their attack and defence , they quite assimilate themselves to the natives of New Holland , perhaps the lowest of the black races ! By this study ; by travels into foreign lands , either by private ...
... living , the food eaten by them , their attack and defence , they quite assimilate themselves to the natives of New Holland , perhaps the lowest of the black races ! By this study ; by travels into foreign lands , either by private ...
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... living in the temperate regions of the world , and that he is capable of a high mental cul- ture , neither of which untenable positions do we see hold good among the thousands with whom we come in contact . If the black class desired so ...
... living in the temperate regions of the world , and that he is capable of a high mental cul- ture , neither of which untenable positions do we see hold good among the thousands with whom we come in contact . If the black class desired so ...
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... living in the South ! In the latter section , the climate is better adapted to the colored race , the productions being different , and the country sparsely settled ; there were more induce- ments to slave labor in the growth of tobacco ...
... living in the South ! In the latter section , the climate is better adapted to the colored race , the productions being different , and the country sparsely settled ; there were more induce- ments to slave labor in the growth of tobacco ...
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... living mostly on the natural productions of the country . They can subsist on plantains and bananas , with the fish obtained from the ocean , -the obtaining of which requires but little labor . The whites have retrogra- ded , and of ...
... living mostly on the natural productions of the country . They can subsist on plantains and bananas , with the fish obtained from the ocean , -the obtaining of which requires but little labor . The whites have retrogra- ded , and of ...
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... living in mere huts , without the most common comforts possessed by the negroes of the South , of Cuba or Brazil . Such is the oppres- sion of man to his own color , that he blushes not to feel himself a man tinctured with inhumanity ...
... living in mere huts , without the most common comforts possessed by the negroes of the South , of Cuba or Brazil . Such is the oppres- sion of man to his own color , that he blushes not to feel himself a man tinctured with inhumanity ...
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Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 115 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 361 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 362 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Page 367 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 129 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.