The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and EnfranchisementH. Holt, 1906 - 436 páginas |
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... human dignity , but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can per- petuate the existence of our Union , by consolidating it in a common bond of principle . " These words of Washington , with the incident that ...
... human dignity , but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can per- petuate the existence of our Union , by consolidating it in a common bond of principle . " These words of Washington , with the incident that ...
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... humanity . The social conscience was not awake , -strange as its slumber now seems . Stranger still , as we shall see , after it had once been thoroughly roused , it was deliberately drugged to sleep . But this belongs to a later ...
... humanity . The social conscience was not awake , -strange as its slumber now seems . Stranger still , as we shall see , after it had once been thoroughly roused , it was deliberately drugged to sleep . But this belongs to a later ...
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... human slavery . A little later , in the generation before the Revolution , came the Quaker , John Woolman , -a gentle and lovely soul , known among his people as a kind of lay evangelist , traveling among their communities to utter ...
... human slavery . A little later , in the generation before the Revolution , came the Quaker , John Woolman , -a gentle and lovely soul , known among his people as a kind of lay evangelist , traveling among their communities to utter ...
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... humanity , like Jefferson and Patrick Henry . With the minds of thoughtful men thoroughly wakened on the subject of human rights , it was impossible not to reflect on the wrongs of the slaves , incomparably worse than those against ...
... humanity , like Jefferson and Patrick Henry . With the minds of thoughtful men thoroughly wakened on the subject of human rights , it was impossible not to reflect on the wrongs of the slaves , incomparably worse than those against ...
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... human eyes it was the parting of the ways between dis- integration toward anarchy , and the birth of a nation with fairer opportunities and higher ideals than any that had gone before . The work of those forty men in half a year has ...
... human eyes it was the parting of the ways between dis- integration toward anarchy , and the birth of a nation with fairer opportunities and higher ideals than any that had gone before . The work of those forty men in half a year has ...
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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.