The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, Volume 2American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837 |
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... body should believe that a human being could be a slave , and feel contented . I don't believe there ever was a slave who did not long for liberty . " The whole letter bore the stamp of a mind elevated , candid , and sim- ple , to a ...
... body should believe that a human being could be a slave , and feel contented . I don't believe there ever was a slave who did not long for liberty . " The whole letter bore the stamp of a mind elevated , candid , and sim- ple , to a ...
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... body , are exceedingly misrepresented . The influences of circumstances upon mind , are overlook- ed - and the difference between cultivation and intellect , between learning and intelligence , is disregarded the poor sufferers are ...
... body , are exceedingly misrepresented . The influences of circumstances upon mind , are overlook- ed - and the difference between cultivation and intellect , between learning and intelligence , is disregarded the poor sufferers are ...
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... body of men , they have leading characteristics - and as in every other body , in these leading characteristics , many exceptions are found . may also observe that , as among other bodies of men , these leading characteristics , are ...
... body of men , they have leading characteristics - and as in every other body , in these leading characteristics , many exceptions are found . may also observe that , as among other bodies of men , these leading characteristics , are ...
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... body and limbs - despotism , se- parated from every commixture , and doubly refined by the characteristic skill of freemen ! It is the alcohol itself . Of course it must be more inimical to liberty than other modi- fied forms of ...
... body and limbs - despotism , se- parated from every commixture , and doubly refined by the characteristic skill of freemen ! It is the alcohol itself . Of course it must be more inimical to liberty than other modi- fied forms of ...
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... bodies of freemen , who dare to question his authority . This is another aspect of our nation . It is horribly base , and ... body through our streets , until our name is a stench in every palace of despotism . Champion of liberty indeed ...
... bodies of freemen , who dare to question his authority . This is another aspect of our nation . It is horribly base , and ... body through our streets , until our name is a stench in every palace of despotism . Champion of liberty indeed ...
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Page 263 - For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Page 300 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 303 - 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 every man unto his family.
Page 318 - And if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 57 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himl wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Page 326 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 296 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 120 - And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 304 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 57 - Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness,, and forsook not the ordinance of their God : they ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.