Collection of Writings on the Slavery Question1838 |
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... tion of the American people . More than fifty - seven years have elapsed since a band of patriots convened in this place , to devise measures for the deliverance of this country from a foreign yoke . The corner stone upon which they ...
... tion of the American people . More than fifty - seven years have elapsed since a band of patriots convened in this place , to devise measures for the deliverance of this country from a foreign yoke . The corner stone upon which they ...
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... tion to this momentous subject : But we maintain that Congress has a right , and is solemnly bound , to suppress the domestic slave trade between the several states , and to abolish slavery in those portions of our territory which the ...
... tion to this momentous subject : But we maintain that Congress has a right , and is solemnly bound , to suppress the domestic slave trade between the several states , and to abolish slavery in those portions of our territory which the ...
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... tion ; and one of the many reasons why we cherish , and will endeavor to preserve the constitution , is , that it restrains Congress from making any law " abridging the freedom of speech or of the press . " Such , fellow - citizens ...
... tion ; and one of the many reasons why we cherish , and will endeavor to preserve the constitution , is , that it restrains Congress from making any law " abridging the freedom of speech or of the press . " Such , fellow - citizens ...
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... tion of all They desire no more land than they use , which they cultivate with great care and industry if any of them are known to be made slaves by the white men , they all join to redeem them . They not only sup- port all that are old ...
... tion of all They desire no more land than they use , which they cultivate with great care and industry if any of them are known to be made slaves by the white men , they all join to redeem them . They not only sup- port all that are old ...
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... tion ; those that are approved are set on one sido . In the mean time , a burning iron , with the arms or name of the company , lies in the fire , with which they are marked on the breast Before they are put into the ships , their ...
... tion ; those that are approved are set on one sido . In the mean time , a burning iron , with the arms or name of the company , lies in the fire , with which they are marked on the breast Before they are put into the ships , their ...
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?