The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United StatesJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1864 - 246 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
African coast annually apprentice asientos authority average Brazil Brazilians calculation Canada West Casas census cent Central America century civil claims to service colored population confiscate Constitution Council Report death debts declared dollars dred eight hundred Emancipation empire of Brazil enemy estimate evidence fifteen millions fifty thousand four hundred Frances Anne Kemble free colored Government half Hayti Hispaniola human hundred thousand inhabitants insurrectionary island Jamaica Lord Palmerston Lords of Council Louisiana master Middle Passage mortality mulatto natural increase number of negroes number of slaves opinion peace persons Peru plantation portion proportion question race Report cited Santa Catharina says service or labor seven millions Sheet shipped six hundred slave population slave-trade slaveholder slavery slaves imported South America South Carolina thousand five hundred thousand seven hundred tion total number trade United Uruguay Vattel Venezuela West Indies witness words
Pasajes populares
Página 115 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 162 - That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found...
Página 169 - A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be intrusted with the administration of the common Government because he has declared that that 'Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,' and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
Página 34 - Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations...
Página 157 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and forever free...
Página 115 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 147 - When the regular course of justice is interrupted by revolt, rebellion, or insurrection, so that the courts of justice cannot be kept open, civil war exists, and hostilities may be prosecuted on the same footing as if those opposing the government were foreign enemies invading the land.
Página 161 - You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government ; while I have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 157 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Página 85 - Great Britain may reap emoluments from this sort of traffic; but when we consider that it greatly retards the settlement of the Colonies with more useful inhabitants, and may in time have the most destructive influence, we presume to hope that the interest of a few will be disregarded, when placed in competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects.
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race Robert Young Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |