A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890: Combined with the History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War : Also a Short Sketch of LiberiaIsaac Goldmann, 1891 - 400 pages |
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... Fire . For sev- eral hours they buried balls in the earthen walls and injured no one . Bombs were then fired . These ... fire " hot shot at the magazine . " So the furnaces were heated and the fiery flames began to whizz through the air ...
... Fire . For sev- eral hours they buried balls in the earthen walls and injured no one . Bombs were then fired . These ... fire " hot shot at the magazine . " So the furnaces were heated and the fiery flames began to whizz through the air ...
Page 65
... fire on the " mob , " and Attucks fell , the first one , with three others , Caldwell , Gray , and Maverick . The town bell was rung , the alarm given and citizens from the country ran into Boston , where the greatest excitement ...
... fire on the " mob , " and Attucks fell , the first one , with three others , Caldwell , Gray , and Maverick . The town bell was rung , the alarm given and citizens from the country ran into Boston , where the greatest excitement ...
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... Fire away , my boys ; no haul a color down ! ' The other was a black man by the name of John Davis , and was struck in much the same way . He fell near me , and several times requested to be thrown overboard , saying he was only in the ...
... Fire away , my boys ; no haul a color down ! ' The other was a black man by the name of John Davis , and was struck in much the same way . He fell near me , and several times requested to be thrown overboard , saying he was only in the ...
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... fire in front , and charged the Union flanks . Upon this the Union troops found shelter from the gun - boats , and broadside after broadside made the Confederates hasten away . An Eye Witness ' Description : " As before stated , the ...
... fire in front , and charged the Union flanks . Upon this the Union troops found shelter from the gun - boats , and broadside after broadside made the Confederates hasten away . An Eye Witness ' Description : " As before stated , the ...
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... fire . The Confederates charged again , giving the colored troops their very best , but the Negro regiments did not budge . Gen Ferrero then ordered his troops to charge , and , in this the first fight between Negro troops and Vir ...
... fire . The Confederates charged again , giving the colored troops their very best , but the Negro regiments did not budge . Gen Ferrero then ordered his troops to charge , and , in this the first fight between Negro troops and Vir ...
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A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890: Combined ... Edward Austin Johnson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 14 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Page 207 - Whereas, the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Page 29 - I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant lines you enclosed ; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents; in honor of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem, had I not been apprehensive, that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined...
Page 208 - First, that the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. "Second, that it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 208 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 186 - Slaves, manumitted here, became freemen, and therefore, if born within North Carolina, are citizens of North Carolina ; and all free persons born within the State are born citizens of the State.
Page 198 - Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That, in the opinion of Congress a condition of public war exists between the government of Spain and the government proclaimed and for some time maintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba; and that the United States of America should maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, according to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States.
Page 30 - If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the Muses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great respect, your obedient, humble servant, GEORGE WASHINGTON^ 1 Sparks's Washington, vol.
Page 14 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Page 55 - I have not the least doubt, that the negroes will make very excellent soldiers, with proper management: and I will venture to pronounce, that they cannot be put in better hands than those of Mr.