An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this SubjectAMS Press, 1973 - 440 páginas |
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... colored people , was immediately or prospectively abolished , and the most prominent men of those days took an active part in having it done . 1 General Warren , in his address on the 6th of March , 1775 , only one hundred and nine days ...
... colored people , was immediately or prospectively abolished , and the most prominent men of those days took an active part in having it done . 1 General Warren , in his address on the 6th of March , 1775 , only one hundred and nine days ...
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... colored people , in his eyes , were no people ; and yet he did not think so . No ! it must be put down to man's inconsistency , or , as he himself said , because he really feared true liberty would be endangered by letting the colored ...
... colored people , in his eyes , were no people ; and yet he did not think so . No ! it must be put down to man's inconsistency , or , as he himself said , because he really feared true liberty would be endangered by letting the colored ...
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... colored man , or a slave , cannot be restrained in servitude without his own consent , and the pretended authority of the master is utterly null and void : this instrument takes from him all authority . - There were , however , in this ...
... colored man , or a slave , cannot be restrained in servitude without his own consent , and the pretended authority of the master is utterly null and void : this instrument takes from him all authority . - There were , however , in this ...
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CHAPTER I | 13 |
CHAPTER II | 36 |
Quotations showing the Character of the People who came | 90 |
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