Thoughts on African Colonization, Or, An Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society: Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of ColorGarrison and Knapp, 1832 - 236 pages |
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... trade - to reclaim and evangelize benighted Africa and various other marvels . Anxious to do something for the colored population - they knew not what — and having no other plan presented to their view , they eagerly embraced a scheme ...
... trade - to reclaim and evangelize benighted Africa and various other marvels . Anxious to do something for the colored population - they knew not what — and having no other plan presented to their view , they eagerly embraced a scheme ...
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... trade , how mild and inefficient , comparatively speaking , seem to have been the rebukes of Pitt , and Fox , and Wilberforce , and Clark- son ! Yet these rebukes were once deemed fanatical and out- rageous by good men - yea , like ...
... trade , how mild and inefficient , comparatively speaking , seem to have been the rebukes of Pitt , and Fox , and Wilberforce , and Clark- son ! Yet these rebukes were once deemed fanatical and out- rageous by good men - yea , like ...
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... trade therefore a blessing ? Suppose one of those wretches who are engaged in this nefarious commerce were brought be- fore the Supreme Court , and being convicted , should be asked by the Judge , whether he had aught to say why ...
... trade therefore a blessing ? Suppose one of those wretches who are engaged in this nefarious commerce were brought be- fore the Supreme Court , and being convicted , should be asked by the Judge , whether he had aught to say why ...
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... trade , -a trade which cannot be destroyed in any other manner . Who does not desire to see Africa civilized and evangelized ? Whose heart does not leap Who does not in view of the suppression of the slave trade ? pray for deliverance ...
... trade , -a trade which cannot be destroyed in any other manner . Who does not desire to see Africa civilized and evangelized ? Whose heart does not leap Who does not in view of the suppression of the slave trade ? pray for deliverance ...
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... trade , they will outwit and defraud the natives as often as occasion permits . This knavish treatment once detected , - as it surely will be , for even an uncivilized people may soon learn that they have been cheated , -will provoke ...
... trade , they will outwit and defraud the natives as often as occasion permits . This knavish treatment once detected , - as it surely will be , for even an uncivilized people may soon learn that they have been cheated , -will provoke ...
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ABNER H abolition of slavery advocates Africa African Repository American Colonization Society Annual Report believe benevolent blood bondage brethren cause Chairman character christian civil coast of Africa Coloniza colonizationists colored citizens condition consent countrymen crime dangerous declares degra degraded Disosway emancipation emigrate equal evil existence fear feelings free blacks free colored population free negroes freedom freemen friends give gospel happiness honorable human ignorant improvement increase individual influence James Forten justice labor laws Liberator Liberia liberty manumission manumitted masters means measure meeting ment millions mind moral motives mulatto nation never New-York object opinion oppression ourselves persons of color philanthropy planters prejudice present principles race religion remain removal Resolved respect rights of property scheme sentiments shores slave trade slaveholders southern spirit system of slavery thousand tion transportation true truth United Upper Canada William Lloyd Garrison wish
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Page 17 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 11 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 1 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 101 - 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 18 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 66 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 116 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 70 - ... this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man; and by that law unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 101 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...
Page 7 - America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil, which their blood and sweat manured; and that any measure or system of measures, having a tendency to banish us from her bosom, would not only be cruel, but in direct violation of those principles which have been the boast of this republic...