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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... cause it involved a grievous offence against Humanity and Civilization . In peace , before the act of slave- holders made them public enemies , we scrupled to look this offence in the face , seeing no remedy . But war , which has its ...
... cause it involved a grievous offence against Humanity and Civilization . In peace , before the act of slave- holders made them public enemies , we scrupled to look this offence in the face , seeing no remedy . But war , which has its ...
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... cause , I shall ever be grateful for the opportunity that has been afforded me to bring these pages before the public . It is proper I should here state that , in March , 1863 , a commission - consisting of Colonel James McKaye , of New ...
... cause , I shall ever be grateful for the opportunity that has been afforded me to bring these pages before the public . It is proper I should here state that , in March , 1863 , a commission - consisting of Colonel James McKaye , of New ...
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... caused the extinction of a race - Isabella opposed to slavery - Repartimientos - Spanish barbarities - A million natives reduced to sixty thousand in fifteen years- Treachery and blasphemy - The great calamity . CHAPTER III ...
... caused the extinction of a race - Isabella opposed to slavery - Repartimientos - Spanish barbarities - A million natives reduced to sixty thousand in fifteen years- Treachery and blasphemy - The great calamity . CHAPTER III ...
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... im- ported into United States - The half - million and the fifteen millions - Whither each went , and what was the fate of each - Marvellous results . PAGE 48 62 84 CONTENTS . CHAPTER IX . 13 PAGE TOUCHING THE CAUSES.
... im- ported into United States - The half - million and the fifteen millions - Whither each went , and what was the fate of each - Marvellous results . PAGE 48 62 84 CONTENTS . CHAPTER IX . 13 PAGE TOUCHING THE CAUSES.
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... Causes which increased slave - population in South - A habit in Southern States , at variance with cus- tom in West ... caused the death of half a million of free men , and will impose on us a debt nearly equal to that of Great Britain ...
... Causes which increased slave - population in South - A habit in Southern States , at variance with cus- tom in West ... caused the death of half a million of free men , and will impose on us a debt nearly equal to that of Great Britain ...
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Términos y frases comunes
African coast African descent annually asientos authority average Brazil Brazilians calculation Canada West Casas census cent Central America century civil claims to service colored population commission confiscate Constitution Council Report death declared dollars dred eight hundred eighty thousand 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 obtain opinion persons Peru plantation portion proportion race Report cited Santa Catharina says service or labor seven millions Sheet shipped slave population slave-trade slavery slaves imported South America South Carolina testimony thirty thousand thousand five hundred thousand seven hundred tion total number trade United Uruguay Venezuela West Indies witness
Pasajes populares
Página 190 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 189 - We think it does not. If reference be had to its use, in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To...
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 189 - If a certain means to carry into effect any of the powers expressly given by the Constitution to the government of the Union, be an appropriate measure, not prohibited by the Constitution, the degree of its necessity is a question of legislative discretion, not of judicial cognizance.
Página 137 - Where rights are infringed, where fundamental principles are overthrown, where the general system of the laws is departed from, the legislative intention must be expressed with irresistible clearness to induce a court of justice to suppose a design to effect such objects.
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 147 - The true test of its existence, as found in the writings of the sages of the common law, may be thus summarily stated : " 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 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 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 85 - upon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no law, by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed.
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race Robert Young Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |