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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5. oldal
... produce any valuable end , for one frail member of the same fraternity , to attack another , with a volley of threats and predictions of the curses and vengeance of their common Father . Possessors of Slaves have been frequently menaced ...
... produce any valuable end , for one frail member of the same fraternity , to attack another , with a volley of threats and predictions of the curses and vengeance of their common Father . Possessors of Slaves have been frequently menaced ...
9. oldal
... produced by the enslavement of the African race in the United States . Possessors of slaves , as well as others , have investigated the subject with great industry and anxiety ; and all agree that something ought to be done . The ...
... produced by the enslavement of the African race in the United States . Possessors of slaves , as well as others , have investigated the subject with great industry and anxiety ; and all agree that something ought to be done . The ...
17. oldal
... produces to the possessors of slaves , we will next examine its effects upon the slaves themselves , and endeavor to prove that the pe- cuniary as well as the moral interests and rights of both parties , enjoin the expediency of ...
... produces to the possessors of slaves , we will next examine its effects upon the slaves themselves , and endeavor to prove that the pe- cuniary as well as the moral interests and rights of both parties , enjoin the expediency of ...
18. oldal
... produce danger- ous and fatal consequences . I am hence constrained to per- form the melancholy task of recording my dissent from the sentiments of those , who , from the purest motives , and most laudable philanthropy , request the ...
... produce danger- ous and fatal consequences . I am hence constrained to per- form the melancholy task of recording my dissent from the sentiments of those , who , from the purest motives , and most laudable philanthropy , request the ...
20. oldal
... produce despair . " " With a pure heart , " ( says Carnot , another French philanthropist ) one is never unhappy . " Let the possessor of slaves consult the oracles of his own conscience , the spontaneous counsels of his own heart , and ...
... produce despair . " " With a pure heart , " ( says Carnot , another French philanthropist ) one is never unhappy . " Let the possessor of slaves consult the oracles of his own conscience , the spontaneous counsels of his own heart , and ...
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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.