South and North: Or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the SouthAbbey & Abbot, 1860 - 352 páginas |
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... freedom's battle , once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft , is ever won . " New - York : ABBEY & ABBOT , 119 NASSAU STREET . 1860 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 66753B ASTOR , LENOX AND SOUTH AND NORTH; ...
... freedom's battle , once begun , Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft , is ever won . " New - York : ABBEY & ABBOT , 119 NASSAU STREET . 1860 . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 66753B ASTOR , LENOX AND SOUTH AND NORTH; ...
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... freedom . There are many secluded plantations now , where there are from five hun- dred to a thousand slaves . They are never permitted to leave the plantation - never . And no one is permitted to visit them from another plantation ...
... freedom . There are many secluded plantations now , where there are from five hun- dred to a thousand slaves . They are never permitted to leave the plantation - never . And no one is permitted to visit them from another plantation ...
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... indications of pros- perity and thrift . The city itself is essentially a free city , and all its energy is the energy of freedom . I met a Northern gentleman this morning , and almost SLAVE'S CABIN - FREEMAN'S COTTAGE . 77.
... indications of pros- perity and thrift . The city itself is essentially a free city , and all its energy is the energy of freedom . I met a Northern gentleman this morning , and almost SLAVE'S CABIN - FREEMAN'S COTTAGE . 77.
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... freedom . The Christian can have no more imperious duty than his political duties — he can make no mistake more disastrous to the hopes of the world , than to surrender the ad- ministration of this government to Satan's em- ployés ...
... freedom . The Christian can have no more imperious duty than his political duties — he can make no mistake more disastrous to the hopes of the world , than to surrender the ad- ministration of this government to Satan's em- ployés ...
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... freedom , only for the Caucasian race . It is in vain to deny that Jefferson is the chief leader of those whom you , brethren of the South , now call incendiaries and fanatics . It is in vain to deny that his Declaration of Independence ...
... freedom , only for the Caucasian race . It is in vain to deny that Jefferson is the chief leader of those whom you , brethren of the South , now call incendiaries and fanatics . It is in vain to deny that his Declaration of Independence ...
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South and North: Or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South John Stevens Cabot Abbott Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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abolition acres Alabama beautiful beneath blacks blood bludgeon bondage brethren Brooks cabins called Carolina Caucasian race census Christian church cotton Cuba debasement deck degraded dissolution dollars doom dred emancipation energies eyes fanatical Frederick Douglass free colored free labor freedom friends gentlemen Georgia Gulf Gulf of Mexico Havana heart hour human hundred thousand ignorance incendiary insurrection intelligent island Jefferson John Brown JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Kansas ladies land laws Legislature liberty look Maryland Massachusetts master menaces ment miles millions Mississippi Missouri morning nation negroes never New-Orleans New-York niggers night non-slaveholders North Northern o'clock oppressed outrage passed plantation planter poor whites population prosperity rise river scene sell Senate servants ship slave code slave labor Slavery soil South South-Carolina Southern steamer Sumner Thomas Jefferson thousand slaveholders tion toil Union United utter Virginia wages wealth whole words young
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Página 284 - 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.
Página 83 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God...
Página 100 - 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 84 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 111 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Página 30 - There is a river in the ocean : in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows ; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm ; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Página 84 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 110 - I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriage with the dower negroes...
Página 180 - I can show you, with sorrow, in the older portions of Alabama, and in my native county of Madison, the sad memorials of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton. Our small planters, after taking the cream off their lands, unable to restore them by rest, manures, or otherwise, are going further west and south, in search of other virgin lands, which they may and will despoil and impoverish in like manner.
Página 181 - ... that once furnished happy homes for a dozen white families. Indeed, a country in its infancy, where fifty years ago scarce a forest tree had been felled by the axe of the pioneer, is already exhibiting the painful signs of senility and decay apparent in Virginia and the Carolinas...