The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States |
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African coast annually asientos authority average Brazil calculation Canada West carried Casas census cent Central America century civilization claims to service colored population confiscate Congress Constitution Council Report death declared dollars dred eight hundred Emancipation empire of Brazil enemy estimate evidence fifteen millions fifty thousand four hundred Frances Anne Kemble free colored Government half Hayti Hispaniola human hundred thousand inhabitants insurrectionary island Jamaica Lord Palmerston Lords of Council Louisiana master Middle Passage mortality mulatto natural increase number of negroes number of slaves obtain opinion peace persons Peru portion proportion question race Report cited Santa Catharina says service or labor seven millions Sheet shipped six hundred slave population slave-trade slaveholders slavery South America South Carolina thousand five hundred thousand seven hundred thousand slaves tion total number trade twenty United Uruguay Venezuela West Indies witness
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Page 164 - Confiscation Act," as follows :— " That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army: and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of
Page 88 - and, while a question respecting a negro from Virginia led the courts of law to an axiom that as soon as any slave sets his foot on English ground he becomes free, the King of England stood in the path of humanity, and made himself the pillar of the slave-trade. Wherever in the colonies a disposition was shown for its restraint, his servants
Page 30 - nurtured itself, grew without effort, and spread naturally with the society to which it belonged. This calamity is Slavery. Christianity suppressed slavery, but the Christians of the sixteenth century re-established it,—as an exception, indeed, to their social system, and restricted to one of the races of mankind."*
Page 152 - must reduce it to possession. " Owner of all property taken from the enemy," says Grotius. "We seize on the enemy's property and convert it to our own use," says Vattel. The Supreme Court employs a similar phrase, authorizing
Page 212 - of St. Mary's, Woolworth, who in early life was engaged in the slave-trade, and afterwards published a work on the subject, after expressing the opinion that the " far greater part of the wars in Africa would cease if Europeans would cease to tempt them by offering goods for slaves,
Page 107 - by Frances Anne Kemble, p 200. Mrs. Kemble says, elsewhere in her Journal, "Never forget, in reading the details I send you, that the people on this plantation are well off, and consider themselves well off, in comparison with the slaves on some of the neighboring estates." who enjoyed it, was to be found on the plantation of ex-Governor
Page 88 - no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies.'"* of this colony which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check
Page 168 - we can catch him, we will try him, and notwithstanding all the interference of all the governments on earth, including the Federal Government, we will hang him."—Senator Pretton, in
Page 216 - And be it further enacted, That the faith of the United States be and the same is hereby pledged for the payment of just compensation to all persons who shall, on the said
Page 145 - including those bound to service for a terra, of years, and. excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons." To avoid mistakes, it was deemed necessary to include apprentices by express specification. Why this? Every one would have felt it to