Anti-slavery Opinions Before the Year 1800: Read Before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872This books outlines the opinions of Slavery in America before the year 1800, mostly taken from pamphlets and speeches. |
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... liberty , and American injustice in tolerating slavery . By a Farmer , London , " 1783. 24 pages . 8vo . The author compared , in opposite columns , the speeches and resolutions of the members of Congress in behalf of their own liberty ...
... liberty , and American injustice in tolerating slavery . By a Farmer , London , " 1783. 24 pages . 8vo . The author compared , in opposite columns , the speeches and resolutions of the members of Congress in behalf of their own liberty ...
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... liberty and independence ; and if varieties may be found in their structure and color , these are only to be attributed to the nature of their diet and habits , as also to the soil and the climate they may in- habit , and serve as ...
... liberty and independence ; and if varieties may be found in their structure and color , these are only to be attributed to the nature of their diet and habits , as also to the soil and the climate they may in- habit , and serve as ...
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... liberty and reduced to slavery . Consider also that they toil not for them- selves from the rising of the sun to its going down , and you will readily conceive the cause of their inaction . What time or what incitement has a slave to ...
... liberty and reduced to slavery . Consider also that they toil not for them- selves from the rising of the sun to its going down , and you will readily conceive the cause of their inaction . What time or what incitement has a slave to ...
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... liberty and independence , one of the most noble sentiments that ever adorned the human breast was loudly proclaimed in all her councils . Deeply penetrated with the sense of equality , they held it as a fixed principle , that all men ...
... liberty and independence , one of the most noble sentiments that ever adorned the human breast was loudly proclaimed in all her councils . Deeply penetrated with the sense of equality , they held it as a fixed principle , that all men ...
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... liberty ? Deaf to the clamors of criticism , she feels no remorse , and blindly pursues the object of her destruction ; she encourages the propagation of vice , and suffers her youth to be reared in the habits of cruelty . Not even the ...
... liberty ? Deaf to the clamors of criticism , she feels no remorse , and blindly pursues the object of her destruction ; she encourages the propagation of vice , and suffers her youth to be reared in the habits of cruelty . Not even the ...
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abolished Abolition of Slavery Abolition Societies adopted African American amongst annual Anthony Benezet Athenĉum Baltimore Benjamin Rush blacks Boston Boston Athenĉum Brissot de Warville Carolina and Georgia Christian citizens committee Congress Connecticut Constitution convention cruelties Delaware delegates despotism emancipation equally evil formed Franklin Free Negroes freedom George Buchanan Granville Sharp held in Bondage human Ignatius Sancho James January Jefferson Jersey John Buncle Jonathan Penrose Joseph Bloomfield justice letter liberated liberty mankind Maryland Society Massachusetts meeting memorial memorialists mind moral nays Paris Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Society persons Philadelphia Phillis Wheatley present President printed promoting the Abolition Rawle Relief of Free Rhode Island Robert Patterson Samuel Coates SAMUEL STERETT says Secretary sentiments slave trade Society for Promoting South Carolina Sterett subject of slavery territories Thomas tion tution United unlawfully held vice-president Virginia Virginia Society vote Washington Washington Pa William Rawle yeas yourselves
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Page 25 - 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.
Page 26 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 80 - Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated...
Page 51 - Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Page 50 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 65 - Your memorialists, particularly engaged in attending to the distresses arising from slavery, believe it their indispensable duty to present this subject to your notice. They have observed, with real satisfaction, that many important and salutary powers are vested in you for " promoting the welfare and securing the blessings of liberty to the people of the United States...
Page 26 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Page 65 - ... the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men.
Page 25 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 27 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.