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... experience ; which experience I found to be an inexorable teacher , one that never condoned a fault nor erased a blunder . What I shall now say may appear incredible to this age of schools and students , for the enjoy- t ment of whose ...
... experience ; which experience I found to be an inexorable teacher , one that never condoned a fault nor erased a blunder . What I shall now say may appear incredible to this age of schools and students , for the enjoy- t ment of whose ...
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... experience , ahead in intelligence of many who were twice my age . Two years passed before I was privileged to receive fur- ther instruction , when the opportunity came to me to enter a country district school , in which I remained ...
... experience , ahead in intelligence of many who were twice my age . Two years passed before I was privileged to receive fur- ther instruction , when the opportunity came to me to enter a country district school , in which I remained ...
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... experience in the South I have slept in bare cabins , sat on earthen floors , and eaten corn pone , and witnessed as much genuine self - respect in log huts as I have ever beheld in the most pretentious negro homes . I have kept step ...
... experience in the South I have slept in bare cabins , sat on earthen floors , and eaten corn pone , and witnessed as much genuine self - respect in log huts as I have ever beheld in the most pretentious negro homes . I have kept step ...
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... reaching over a period of more than thirty years . I have had an extended experience in teaching the negro , one that brought me in contact with all grades of students and covered every variety of instruction , and in which I XX FOREWORD.
... reaching over a period of more than thirty years . I have had an extended experience in teaching the negro , one that brought me in contact with all grades of students and covered every variety of instruction , and in which I XX FOREWORD.
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... experience the shallowness of their pretensions , the depravity of their morals , the ignorance of their ministers , the bigotry of their leaders , and the levity of their faith . The social side of negro life has been to me an open ...
... experience the shallowness of their pretensions , the depravity of their morals , the ignorance of their ministers , the bigotry of their leaders , and the levity of their faith . The social side of negro life has been to me an open ...
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Page 35 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 69 - ... the system of working at the war office it will be possible to reduce expenditure to any appreciable degree. It may be possible to save a few thousand pounds here and there ; in our system of working the army clothing department, for instance, it may be possible to introduce many minor economies ; but the crux of the whole matter lies in the fact that an army recruited by voluntary enlistment must be paid a wage equal to the standard wage for unskilled labor throughout the country, or must accept...
Page 176 - All who know the Negro recognize, however, that the chief and overpowering element in his make-up is an imperious sexual impulse which, aroused at the slightest incentive, sweeps aside all restraints in the pursuit of physical gratification. We may say now that this element of Negro character constitutes the main incitement to degeneracy of the race and is the chief hindrance to its social uplifting.
Page 10 - Any person or persons who shall attempt to teach any free person of color or slave to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than $250, nor more than $500.
Page 11 - That if any Slave shall presume to strike any White Person, such Slave upon Trial and Conviction before the Justice or Justices according to the directions of this Act shall for the first...
Page 28 - When the entire abolition of slavery takes place, it will be an event which must be pleasing to every generous mind, and every friend of human nature ; but we often wish for things which are not attainable.
Page 13 - Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave; he admires his tyrants more than he hates them, and finds his joy and his pride in the servile imitation of those who oppress him: his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul.
Page 27 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Page 29 - I thought, till very lately that it was known to every body that, during the Revolution, and for many years after, the abolition of slavery was a favorite topic with many of our ablest Statesmen, who entertained with respect all the schemes which wisdom or ingenuity could suggest for its accomplishment.
Page 146 - Religion consists in the perception of the infinite under such manifestations as are able to influence the moral character of man