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... speeches on legislation relating to slavery and the Negro . This means that the reader of the catalogue will find nothing in it on such major political events as the Missouri Compromise , the Annexation of Texas , the Compromise of 1850 ...
... speeches on legislation relating to slavery and the Negro . This means that the reader of the catalogue will find nothing in it on such major political events as the Missouri Compromise , the Annexation of Texas , the Compromise of 1850 ...
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... speech , here for the first time printed , " the most comprehensive indictment of slavery to that time , one of the finest of all time . " Rice began with a definition of slavery : " A Slave is a human creature made by law the property ...
... speech , here for the first time printed , " the most comprehensive indictment of slavery to that time , one of the finest of all time . " Rice began with a definition of slavery : " A Slave is a human creature made by law the property ...
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... Speech of William Wilber- force , Esq . Representative for the County of York , on Wednesday the 13th of May , 1789 , on the question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade . London : Printed at the Logographic Press , and sold by J ...
... Speech of William Wilber- force , Esq . Representative for the County of York , on Wednesday the 13th of May , 1789 , on the question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade . London : Printed at the Logographic Press , and sold by J ...
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... speech which took three - and - a - half hours to deliver . The resolutions carried , but they were tabled until the planters had the opportunity to answer the charges . Delay after delay occurred , but Wilberforce remained steadfast ...
... speech which took three - and - a - half hours to deliver . The resolutions carried , but they were tabled until the planters had the opportunity to answer the charges . Delay after delay occurred , but Wilberforce remained steadfast ...
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... speech of Charles Sumner ; all indicating a readiness to resort to mobo- cratic violence against the abolitionists , as in days gone by , under the pretence of saving the Union , whenever an opportunity is presented . " No sense making ...
... speech of Charles Sumner ; all indicating a readiness to resort to mobo- cratic violence against the abolitionists , as in days gone by , under the pretence of saving the Union , whenever an opportunity is presented . " No sense making ...
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abolished Abolition of Slavery abolitionist Africa American Anti-Slavery Society American Negro Anthony Benezet Autograph Letter Signed Autograph Manuscript became Benezet Benjamin Rush Boston British Brown Camp William Penn Charleston Christophe Civil Clarkson Clotelle colony Colored lithograph Congress Convention copy document Domingo Dubois edition Edwards Emancipation Proclamation England English Episcopal Church free Negroes freedom French Garrison George Haiti Henry insurrection island Jamaica James John later LCP Autograph Letter Liberia Library Company Lincoln London ment Merrihew minister mulatto Narrative National North pamphlet Pennsylvania Society persons phia Philadel Philadelphia Negro Phillis Wheatley poem president Printed Printers Promoting the Abolition propaganda published Quaker race rebellion Regiment Report Robert sent slave trade Society for Promoting sold South Southern speech Thomas tion United Virginia W. E. B. Dubois Washington West Indies Wilberforce William WILLIAM WELLS BROWN written wrote York
Popular passages
Page 74 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 1 - Tagarin, where he stayed some good time, and got into his possession, partly by the sword, and partly by other means, to the number of 300 Negroes at the least, besides other merchandises which that country yieldeth.
Page 48 - A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770: By Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment: which with the XlVth Regiment were then Quartered there. With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe.
Page 9 - Put them in mind of the rod which was held over them a few years ago in the Stamp and Revenue Acts. Remember that national crimes require national punishments, and without declaring what punishment awaits this evil, you may venture to assure them, that it cannot pass with impunity, unless God shall cease to be just or merciful.
Page 83 - Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood...
Page 36 - A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People, in Conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York in America, and murdering the Inhabitants.
Page 73 - Can the blood that, at Lexington, poured o'er the plain, When the sons warred with tyrants their rights to uphold, Can the tide of Niagara wipe out the stain? No! Jefferson's child has been bartered for goldl The daughter of Jefferson sold for a slave!
Page 41 - I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind and cheerfulness, feeling the strong assurance that in no other possible way could I be used to so much advantage to the cause of God and of humanity, and that nothing that either I or all my family have sacrificed or suffered will be lost.
Page 76 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 47 - The highest value, $1,350, was placed upon a forty-year-old plantation blacksmith, followed by $ 1,300 for a much younger carpenter. It was a cold business, and medical examinations were de rigeur. An asthmatic slave was worth only $600, and a woman with a prolapsed uterus half as much. Two superannuated bricklayers, sixty-four and seventy, were deemed worthless. "It is a dreadful affair," Fisher continued in his diary, "selling these hereditary Negroes." Butler had already been excoriated by the...