Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821: In a Series of Letters, with an Appendix Containing an Account of Several of the Indian Tribes and the Principal Missionary Stations, &c. ; Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour |
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... Negroes . These were generally grouped together round something like a farm - yard ; and behind each of them was a little garden , which they cultivate on their own account . The huts themselves are not unlike a poor Irish cabin , with ...
... Negroes . These were generally grouped together round something like a farm - yard ; and behind each of them was a little garden , which they cultivate on their own account . The huts themselves are not unlike a poor Irish cabin , with ...
Page 117
... Negroes were sunning themselves with great satisfaction about the door . They all seemed glad to see my friend , who talked to them very familiarly , and most of them inquired after their mistress . I was told that their provi- sions ...
... Negroes were sunning themselves with great satisfaction about the door . They all seemed glad to see my friend , who talked to them very familiarly , and most of them inquired after their mistress . I was told that their provi- sions ...
Page 118
... Negroes usually go to work at sunrise , and finish the task assigned to them at three or four , or sometimes five or six o'clock in the evening . They have Sunday to themselves , three days at Christmas , one day for sowing their little ...
... Negroes usually go to work at sunrise , and finish the task assigned to them at three or four , or sometimes five or six o'clock in the evening . They have Sunday to themselves , three days at Christmas , one day for sowing their little ...
Page 125
... Negroes sitting on a large heap of paving - stones ; some with most melancholy and disconsolate faces , and others with an air of vacancy and apathy , apparently insensible to what was passing around them . Several merchants and ...
... Negroes sitting on a large heap of paving - stones ; some with most melancholy and disconsolate faces , and others with an air of vacancy and apathy , apparently insensible to what was passing around them . Several merchants and ...
Page 126
... Negroes crowded around the mother , inquiring if she knew who had bought her , or whither she was going : but , alas ! all that she knew of her future destiny was , that a new owner had obtained possession of her and her offspring for ...
... Negroes crowded around the mother , inquiring if she knew who had bought her , or whither she was going : but , alas ! all that she knew of her future destiny was , that a new owner had obtained possession of her and her offspring for ...
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Page 275 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 235 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 277 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 175 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Page 250 - Institutions, containing in substance all that ages had done for human government, were established in a forest. Cultivated mind was to act on uncultivated nature; and, more than all, a government and a country were to commence with the very first foundations laid under the divine light of the Christian religion.
Page 249 - ... and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 248 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 289 - M. JEAN-BAPTISTE SAY, On the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour.
Page 122 - No voice, well known through many a day, To speak the last, the parting word, Which, when all other sounds decay, Is still like distant music heard; — That tender farewell on the shore Of this rude world, when all is o'er, Which cheers the spirit, ere its bark Puts off into the unknown Dark.
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