The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1972 - African Americans Source material quoting from diaries, letters, court decisions, poetry, statements, articles, etc. by 137 different authors. |
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Page 204
... slave population of the South , but it left to the portion of the unrepentant Rebel a far more valuable species of property . The slave , the perishable wealth , was confiscated to the government and then manumitted ; but property in ...
... slave population of the South , but it left to the portion of the unrepentant Rebel a far more valuable species of property . The slave , the perishable wealth , was confiscated to the government and then manumitted ; but property in ...
Page 365
... slave and toils for nothing ; but the mo- ment he claims his own flesh and blood and bones , he is a most obnoxious creature , and there is a proposition to get rid of him ! He is happy while he remains a poor , degraded , ignorant slave ...
... slave and toils for nothing ; but the mo- ment he claims his own flesh and blood and bones , he is a most obnoxious creature , and there is a proposition to get rid of him ! He is happy while he remains a poor , degraded , ignorant slave ...
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... slave " or " slavery " in the whole instrument . In the provision for the recovery of fugitives , the slave is spoken of as a " person held to service or labor . " In that prohibiting the abolition of the African slave trade for twenty ...
... slave " or " slavery " in the whole instrument . In the provision for the recovery of fugitives , the slave is spoken of as a " person held to service or labor . " In that prohibiting the abolition of the African slave trade for twenty ...
Contents
ALAIN LOCKE The High Cost of Prejudice | 3 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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