The Anti-slavery Movement in Kentucky Prior to 1850 ... |
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Abolition Intelligencer abolition of slavery abolitionism abolitionists adopted African Repository American Anti-Slavery Society American Colonization Society Anti-Slavery Society anti-slavery workers April Association attitude Baptist Church bill Birney Breckinridge Papers candidates Cassius Church in Kentucky Cincinnati cipation citizens committee Commonwealth Conference constitutional convention Danville David Rice discussion emanci emancipationists evil Examiner favor Fayette County February Fleming County Frankfort free Negroes Garrisonian Genius of Universal gradual emancipation Henry Clay History of Kentucky Ibid importation of slaves interest James G January John Breckinridge Kentuckians Kentucky Baptists Kentucky Colonization Society laws legislature letter Lexington Observer Liberator Louisville Journal Maysville Eagle meeting ministers movement newspapers Niles non-slaveholders North Ohio opinion organization Pamphlet political population Presbyterian Church pro-slavery Robert Wickliffe Shelbyville slaveholders South southern Synod of Kentucky tion tucky Universal Emancipation Virginia vote Weekly Register Western Luminary Western Presbyterian Herald Wickliffe William William Lloyd Garrison York
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Page 12 - They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State...
Page 117 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 9 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God...
Page 71 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 19 - Revolution, to hold in the deepest debasement, in a more abject slavery than is perhaps to be found in any part of the world except America, so many souls that are all capable of the image of God.
Page 49 - From its origin, and throughout the whole period of its existence, it has constantly disclaimed all intention whatever of interfering, in the smallest degree, with the rights of property, or the object of emancipation, gradual or immediate.
Page 37 - No; except in the following, viz. — 1st. In the case of a person holding young slaves, and recording a deed of their emancipation at such an age as the church to which they offer may agree to. 2nd. In the case of persons who have purchased in their ignorance, and are willing that the church shall say when the slaves or slave shall be free. 3rd. In the case of women, whose husbands are opposed to emancipation. 4th. In the case of a widow, who has it not in her power to liberate them. 5th. In...
Page 47 - Of all the descriptions of our population, and of either portion of the African race, 'the free persons of color are by far, as a class, the most corrupt, depraved and abandoned.
Page 17 - Resolved, That slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature and inconsistent with a republican government, and therefore recommend it to our brethren to make use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrid evil from the land; and pray Almighty God that our honorable Legislature may have it in their power to proclaim the great Jubilee, consistent with the principles of \ good policy.
Page 12 - State as merchandise, and also to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries to them extending to life or limb...