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... Hope on one side , and distrust and fear on the other , create uneasiness and disturbance , which may end in commotion , convulsion , cruelty , and blood . In the agitation of the public mind of the world , which preceded the first ...
... Hope on one side , and distrust and fear on the other , create uneasiness and disturbance , which may end in commotion , convulsion , cruelty , and blood . In the agitation of the public mind of the world , which preceded the first ...
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... hope of improving his condition , he performed his daily task in a composed if not a contented spirit , and so , constantly , won the confidence of the overseer . The result was his promotion to a place of trust . He was made steward of ...
... hope of improving his condition , he performed his daily task in a composed if not a contented spirit , and so , constantly , won the confidence of the overseer . The result was his promotion to a place of trust . He was made steward of ...
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... hope of obtaining it , notwithstanding the changeableness of events ? No , whatever may be said , the condition of those unfortunate beings is not the same as ours . " The last argument employed to justify slavery says , that ' slavery ...
... hope of obtaining it , notwithstanding the changeableness of events ? No , whatever may be said , the condition of those unfortunate beings is not the same as ours . " The last argument employed to justify slavery says , that ' slavery ...
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John Relly Beard. the colonial government . While these and other displays of hope on the one side and jealousy and fear on the other , were taking place , a decree of the French Legislature ( 8th of March , 1790 ) arrived in the colony ...
John Relly Beard. the colonial government . While these and other displays of hope on the one side and jealousy and fear on the other , were taking place , a decree of the French Legislature ( 8th of March , 1790 ) arrived in the colony ...
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... hope you will pay due regard to them . I shall not call the plantations to rise ; that means would be unworthy of me . " Learn to appreciate the merit of a man whose intention is pure . When I solicited from the National Assembly a ...
... hope you will pay due regard to them . I shall not call the plantations to rise ; that means would be unworthy of me . " Learn to appreciate the merit of a man whose intention is pure . When I solicited from the National Assembly a ...
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The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture John Relly Beard,Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 36 - The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."* Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
Page 34 - And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee : therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
Page 275 - He possessed splendid traits of genius, which was developed in the private circle, in the council chamber, and on the field of battle. His very name became a tower of strength to his friends and a terror to his foes. Toussaint's career as a Christian, a statesman, and a general, will lose nothing by a comparison with that of Washington.'.' Each was the leader of an oppressed and outraged people, each had a powerful enemy to contend with, and each succeeded in founding a government in~ the new world....
Page 44 - Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: 14 But without thy mind would I do nothing ; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Page 170 - SaintDomingo that we have come to investigate what they have done during the times of anarchy, assure them that we shall inquire only as to their conduct in this last circumstance ; that we shall search into the past only to discover the deeds which have made them distinguished in the war against the Spaniards and the English, who were our enemies. " Reckon unreservedly on our esteem, and conduct yourself as he ought who is one of the principal citizens of the greatest nation in the world. " The...
Page 34 - And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty : thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress : of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 44 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 149 - ... deceit, makes him a man so superior to all around him, that respect and submission go to the extent of fanaticism in a very great number of persons; it may be affirmed, that no man of the present day has acquired over an ignorant mass the boundless power obtained by General Toussaint over his brethren in San Domingo; he is the absolute master of the island; and nothing can counteract his wishes, whatever they are, although some distinguished men, of whom, however, the number among the blacks...
Page 170 - What can you desire ? — the freedom of the blacks ? You know that in all the countries we have been in, we have given it to the people who had it not.
Page 43 - Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds...