"Liberty": The Image and Superscription on Every Coin Issued by the United States of AmericaAmerican Anti-Slavery Society, 1837 - 231 páginas Extracts on slavery. |
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... mistresses to be taught to read and write , and to be brought up to some useful occupation , agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia , providing for the support of orphans and other poor children . And I do hereby ...
... mistresses to be taught to read and write , and to be brought up to some useful occupation , agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia , providing for the support of orphans and other poor children . And I do hereby ...
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... mistresses , and nurse their children , and do not scent them with the bad smell , -but as soon as they are free - bad smell . " GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION . " Much has been said by the advocates and apologists of slavery , about ...
... mistresses , and nurse their children , and do not scent them with the bad smell , -but as soon as they are free - bad smell . " GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION . " Much has been said by the advocates and apologists of slavery , about ...
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... mistress persisted in her charge against her . At length the brutish master seized the poor unfortunate girl , drew her clothes up over her head , hanged her by them to the limb of a tree , and in that shameful position whipt her ...
... mistress persisted in her charge against her . At length the brutish master seized the poor unfortunate girl , drew her clothes up over her head , hanged her by them to the limb of a tree , and in that shameful position whipt her ...
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... mistress of the family beat the woman who performed the kitchen work , with a stick two feet and a half long , and nearly as thick as my wrist ; striking her over the head , and across the small of the back , as she was bent over at her ...
... mistress of the family beat the woman who performed the kitchen work , with a stick two feet and a half long , and nearly as thick as my wrist ; striking her over the head , and across the small of the back , as she was bent over at her ...
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... mistress , and their two slaves , were professors of religion , members of the same identical church , and that a Presbyterian church . The widow lady applied to her church session for a certificate of her good standing . The session ...
... mistress , and their two slaves , were professors of religion , members of the same identical church , and that a Presbyterian church . The widow lady applied to her church session for a certificate of her good standing . The session ...
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Página 104 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Página 191 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 9 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Página 196 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 226 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Página 9 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has J _ not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? . ~ The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which / ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible...
Página 226 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Página 227 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Página 13 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 222 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.