An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this SubjectSaxton & Peirce, 1841 - 440 páginas |
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... colored brethren have already fled , and are continually fleeing , for succor and for aid to shield them from the iron yoke imposed upon them in the Southern States of this Union , and when we know their cry is constantly ascending for ...
... colored brethren have already fled , and are continually fleeing , for succor and for aid to shield them from the iron yoke imposed upon them in the Southern States of this Union , and when we know their cry is constantly ascending for ...
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... colored race , yet we think they left no word by which slavery could be justified or maintained in the Constitution of our country ; and that , so far as that instrument is concerned , it cannot be supported . This , we are aware , is ...
... colored race , yet we think they left no word by which slavery could be justified or maintained in the Constitution of our country ; and that , so far as that instrument is concerned , it cannot be supported . This , we are aware , is ...
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... colored population there , they would have to remain a wilderness ; and that the African would be better off in this country than in his own . These ideas , with the fear they should not be able to maintain their lib- erties and the ...
... colored population there , they would have to remain a wilderness ; and that the African would be better off in this country than in his own . These ideas , with the fear they should not be able to maintain their lib- erties and the ...
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... if advantage had been taken of their words by our colored popula- 1 John C. Calhoun , in the senate of the United States , made use of this expression . · tion , slavery would have ceased to have existed STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION . 27.
... if advantage had been taken of their words by our colored popula- 1 John C. Calhoun , in the senate of the United States , made use of this expression . · tion , slavery would have ceased to have existed STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION . 27.
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... colored , who were and are interested , has perpetuated it in our land . In order to substantiate these assertions , it may be thought proper and necessary , since so much has been said and admitted to the contrary , to show on what ...
... colored , who were and are interested , has perpetuated it in our land . In order to substantiate these assertions , it may be thought proper and necessary , since so much has been said and admitted to the contrary , to show on what ...
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