A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. Illustrated with Engravings |
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... existing proprietors of even the most extensive slave estates in the country ! This state of things has , to a cer- tain extent , already commenced . I was informed of some ancient and immensely rich slave possessions , and shewn some ...
... existing proprietors of even the most extensive slave estates in the country ! This state of things has , to a cer- tain extent , already commenced . I was informed of some ancient and immensely rich slave possessions , and shewn some ...
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... existing circumstances . - In compliance with the loud and imperative demands of jus- tice and humanity , and the injunctions of policy and self interest , let their toil be carefully and justly proportioned to their bodily strength ...
... existing circumstances . - In compliance with the loud and imperative demands of jus- tice and humanity , and the injunctions of policy and self interest , let their toil be carefully and justly proportioned to their bodily strength ...
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... existing laws of their res- pective districts , from accomplishing the full extent of * Several letters have been addressed to the Pennsylvania So- ciety for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery , by individuals resid- ing in the southern ...
... existing laws of their res- pective districts , from accomplishing the full extent of * Several letters have been addressed to the Pennsylvania So- ciety for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery , by individuals resid- ing in the southern ...
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... existing laws , if a free coloured man travels without passports certifying his right to his liberty , he is gene- rally apprehended ; and frequently plunged into slavery , by the operation of the laws . But after being seized and ...
... existing laws , if a free coloured man travels without passports certifying his right to his liberty , he is gene- rally apprehended ; and frequently plunged into slavery , by the operation of the laws . But after being seized and ...
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... existing laws , within the * An expression of the late sagacious and inflexible patriot , John Clopton , while a representative in congress . lic jurisdiction of the republic ; and to place him 58 PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY .
... existing laws , within the * An expression of the late sagacious and inflexible patriot , John Clopton , while a representative in congress . lic jurisdiction of the republic ; and to place him 58 PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY .
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Page 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 63 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 51 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 70 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.
Page 59 - It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an Almighty hand.
Page 63 - That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Page 41 - Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn?
Page 74 - I presumed to put my hand upon it. After this, some of them went away with my horse, and the remainder stood considering whether they should leave me quite naked, or allow me something to shelter me from the sun. Humanity at last prevailed: they returned me the worst of the two shirts, and a pair of...
Page 63 - 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.