A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. Illustrated with Engravingsauthor., 1817 - 94 oldal |
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9. oldal
... lands ; employment on national canals , roads , & c . have been recommended . These pro- jects are most certainly impracticable , except partially : because their completion would require the voluntary estrangement by its legal holders ...
... lands ; employment on national canals , roads , & c . have been recommended . These pro- jects are most certainly impracticable , except partially : because their completion would require the voluntary estrangement by its legal holders ...
16. oldal
... land and about 25 slaves , and the fourth 10 acres , with 2 slaves . If the slaves should multiply proportionably with their masters , the plantations would not ; for it is judged from corres- ponding information and facts , that many ...
... land and about 25 slaves , and the fourth 10 acres , with 2 slaves . If the slaves should multiply proportionably with their masters , the plantations would not ; for it is judged from corres- ponding information and facts , that many ...
26. oldal
... lands sold for their be- nefit ; which , being prohibited by law , unless they should be removed out of the boundaries ... land for them and settle them on it ; to give them provisions for the first year , and furnish them with tools for ...
... lands sold for their be- nefit ; which , being prohibited by law , unless they should be removed out of the boundaries ... land for them and settle them on it ; to give them provisions for the first year , and furnish them with tools for ...
27. oldal
... land , where his services , as an industrious , though free laborer , may be indispensable to its cultivation . But under pre- sent circumstances , I am not disposed to question the policy or propriety of suitable laws , for regulating ...
... land , where his services , as an industrious , though free laborer , may be indispensable to its cultivation . But under pre- sent circumstances , I am not disposed to question the policy or propriety of suitable laws , for regulating ...
29. oldal
... land , may resort if they please , and enjoy the blessings of knowledge , social happiness , and the products of their own industry ; and perhaps be protected , at the same time , from the sacrilegious talons of the nu- merous hordes of ...
... land , may resort if they please , and enjoy the blessings of knowledge , social happiness , and the products of their own industry ; and perhaps be protected , at the same time , from the sacrilegious talons of the nu- merous hordes of ...
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A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on ... Jesse Torrey,John Bioren Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on ... Jesse Torrey, Jr.,John Bioren Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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2. oldal - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
2. oldal - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
63. oldal - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
51. oldal - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
70. oldal - 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.
59. oldal - It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an Almighty hand.
63. oldal - That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
41. oldal - Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn?
74. oldal - I presumed to put my hand upon it. After this, some of them went away with my horse, and the remainder stood considering whether they should leave me quite naked, or allow me something to shelter me from the sun. Humanity at last prevailed: they returned me the worst of the two shirts, and a pair of...
63. oldal - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.