History of the Colored Race in America |
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... TAKEN FOR A GHOST - THEIR AMUSEMENT AT EUROPEAN CUSTOMS - DISCUSSES THEOLOGY - METHOD OF BURIAL - THE RAIN - MAKER AND HIS ART - PECULIAR IDEAS - THE TREE DWELLERS . - - CHAPTER IV . FREDERIC CAILLIAUD - THE MARCH INTO THE DESERT - THE ...
... TAKEN FOR A GHOST - THEIR AMUSEMENT AT EUROPEAN CUSTOMS - DISCUSSES THEOLOGY - METHOD OF BURIAL - THE RAIN - MAKER AND HIS ART - PECULIAR IDEAS - THE TREE DWELLERS . - - CHAPTER IV . FREDERIC CAILLIAUD - THE MARCH INTO THE DESERT - THE ...
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... taken so narrow and so biased a view of the Declaration of Independence , and of the Constitution . The Fugitive Slave Law also appears to us now , like a relic of the dark ages . The act was clearly unconstitutional , and yet , the ...
... taken so narrow and so biased a view of the Declaration of Independence , and of the Constitution . The Fugitive Slave Law also appears to us now , like a relic of the dark ages . The act was clearly unconstitutional , and yet , the ...
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... taken before their King , which might have proved a very costly one , Park kindly presented them with a little tobacco , upon which they were contented , and willingly allowed him to proceed . After proceeding further he ascertained he ...
... taken before their King , which might have proved a very costly one , Park kindly presented them with a little tobacco , upon which they were contented , and willingly allowed him to proceed . After proceeding further he ascertained he ...
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... taken up his residence at the house of the chief man of the town , was fa- vored with an opportunity of observing the genuine character of the Colored man of this part of Africa . The same evening , says he , " Madiboo , one of the ...
... taken up his residence at the house of the chief man of the town , was fa- vored with an opportunity of observing the genuine character of the Colored man of this part of Africa . The same evening , says he , " Madiboo , one of the ...
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... taken from him . He was then permitted to depart . Among the honest colored guides with whom he had set out on his journey from the King of Yam's dominions , there was a blacksmith from the interior , who having amassed some little ...
... taken from him . He was then permitted to depart . Among the honest colored guides with whom he had set out on his journey from the King of Yam's dominions , there was a blacksmith from the interior , who having amassed some little ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III | 66 |
FREDERIC CAILLIAUDTHE MARCH INTO THE DESERTTHE CARAVAN | 117 |
CHAPTER VI | 132 |
CHAPTER IX | 186 |
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE SLAVERY RECOGNIZED BY THE FRENCH | 195 |
CHAPTER XII | 213 |
THE CIVIL WARCAUSES THAT PRODUCED IT THE ATTACK ON FORT | 244 |
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH GEN GRANT COMMANDS THE UNION FORCES | 259 |
BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE GRANT ORDERS AN ATTACK GALLANT | 300 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 307 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHIS EARLY LIFEHARDSHIP AND PRIVATIONS | 389 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 413 |
246 | 480 |
BOLD MOVEMENT BLOODY FIGHTINGHANCOCKS ATTACKGEN | 602 |
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Page 279 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
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Page 389 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 372 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 278 - In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Page 372 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 12 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 173 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 139 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.
Page 54 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.