Collection of Writings on the Slavery Question1838 |
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... southern states ; they are liable to be called at any moment to suppress a general insurrection of the slaves ; they authorize the slave owner to vote on three - fifths of his slaves as pro- perty , and thus enable him to perpetuate his ...
... southern states ; they are liable to be called at any moment to suppress a general insurrection of the slaves ; they authorize the slave owner to vote on three - fifths of his slaves as pro- perty , and thus enable him to perpetuate his ...
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... Southern States than in the French West India Islands . Of course we desire no national legislation on the subject . 2d . We hold that Slavery can only be lawfully abolished by the Legisla- tures of the several states in which it ...
... Southern States than in the French West India Islands . Of course we desire no national legislation on the subject . 2d . We hold that Slavery can only be lawfully abolished by the Legisla- tures of the several states in which it ...
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... southern bounds of Angola , are so far from being the stupid , senseless , brutish , lazy barbarians , the fierce , cruel , perfidious savages they had been described , that , on the contrary , they are represented , by them who have no ...
... southern bounds of Angola , are so far from being the stupid , senseless , brutish , lazy barbarians , the fierce , cruel , perfidious savages they had been described , that , on the contrary , they are represented , by them who have no ...
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... Virginia alene exports to the Southern and Western markets TEN THOUSAND SLAVES annually Reader udge of the anguish and tears this must cause ! -- Pu Committes . boilers ; so that it is often past twelve before THOUGHTS UPON SLAVERY .
... Virginia alene exports to the Southern and Western markets TEN THOUSAND SLAVES annually Reader udge of the anguish and tears this must cause ! -- Pu Committes . boilers ; so that it is often past twelve before THOUGHTS UPON SLAVERY .
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... southern slaves are Cushites and not Čanaanites ; but , if they were Canaanites , how do their oppressors know that the curse has not spent its force ? One would think from the scripture history , that the punishment of the wretched ...
... southern slaves are Cushites and not Čanaanites ; but , if they were Canaanites , how do their oppressors know that the curse has not spent its force ? One would think from the scripture history , that the punishment of the wretched ...
Common terms and phrases
abolition AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY Angola apostles barouche Bible blood bondage bondmen Canaan Christian clothing Coast colored commandment Committee Committee of Vigilance condition conscience corn cotton covet cruelty dark death divine duty emancipation enslave escape facts feel floggings give hands heart heathen hold human hundred husband inflict justice Kentucky Synod kind kingdom of Benin labor land lashes liberty live Lord Louisiana master means ment mercy moral murdered Natchez nation native nature necessary negroes neighbor never New-York night Oneida Institute oppression overseer owner parents perpetuate plantations planters principles procured punishment regard religion respect river Senegal Roman slavery Sabbath sanction SCARRED sell servants sinful Slave Coast slaveholders slaves sold souls South southern suffer Sumner county system of slavery thing Thou shalt tion trade truth unto violates whipped whole woman women words yoke
Popular passages
Page 7 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 6 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Page 3 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 8 - I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
Page 11 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 11 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 8 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 17 - 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 19 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, behold we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it ? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it ? and shall he not render to every man according to his works...
Page 8 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?