The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and EnfranchisementH. Holt, 1906 - 436 páginas |
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... carried it home , where it was turned into rum ; the rum went to Africa and was exchanged for slaves , and the slaves were carried to the West Indies , Virginia , and the Carolinas . Rum and slaves , two chief staples of New England ...
... carried it home , where it was turned into rum ; the rum went to Africa and was exchanged for slaves , and the slaves were carried to the West Indies , Virginia , and the Carolinas . Rum and slaves , two chief staples of New England ...
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... carried by the emigrants from the seaboard , were allowed without question to retain the institution . Of the old thirteen , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Connecticut , Rhode Island , New York New Jersey , Pennsylvania ( spite of a ...
... carried by the emigrants from the seaboard , were allowed without question to retain the institution . Of the old thirteen , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Connecticut , Rhode Island , New York New Jersey , Pennsylvania ( spite of a ...
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... carried down the river to New Orleans , where she was sold on the auction block , and never heard of again . Birney took part in the work of the new anti - slavery soci- eties , but he did not follow Garrison's no - government theo ...
... carried down the river to New Orleans , where she was sold on the auction block , and never heard of again . Birney took part in the work of the new anti - slavery soci- eties , but he did not follow Garrison's no - government theo ...
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... maintained them .. . If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers , heaven will assist us to carry on the work of • human liberty and human happiness . Auspicious omens cheer us Birney , Channing , and Webster 65.
... maintained them .. . If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers , heaven will assist us to carry on the work of • human liberty and human happiness . Auspicious omens cheer us Birney , Channing , and Webster 65.
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... carry to victory . Birney , never an extremist , had grown to a full recognition of all that was at stake . He wrote in 1835 : " The contest is becoming - has become - not one alone of freedom for the blacks , but of freedom for the ...
... carry to victory . Birney , never an extremist , had grown to a full recognition of all that was at stake . He wrote in 1835 : " The contest is becoming - has become - not one alone of freedom for the blacks , but of freedom for the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
14th amendment abolished Abolitionists amendment American anti-slavery army better bill cabinet Calhoun candidate cause character Civil claimed Congress Constitution convention declared defeated Democrats disunion Douglas election emancipation emancipation proclamation Fanny Kemble favor Federal force Force bill Free Soil freedmen Freedmen's Bureau freedom fugitive gave Georgia Governor govt Hayes Henry hostility House human industrial interest Jefferson John Brown Johnson Kansas labor leaders Legislature Lincoln Louisiana Massachusetts ment Mississippi moral negro nominated North Northern opposed organized Ostend manifesto passed peace plantation political popular practical Pres President Presidential principles proposed question race recognized reconstruction refused Repub Republican party secedes secession Senate sentiment Seward slave power slave trade slave-holding slavery social society South Carolina Southern speech spirit strong suffrage Sumner temper territory tion Uncle Tom's Cabin Union Virginia vote voters Washington Whigs wrong
Pasajes populares
Página 245 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is no.t either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it 5 and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 250 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Página 7 - 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 221 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 103 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 206 - For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Página 136 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Página 380 - Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth. And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Página 250 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 157 - I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.