The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 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 late ...
... 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 late ...
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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 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 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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 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 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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 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 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.