Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States of North America: Being Replies to Questions Transmitted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade Throughout the World, Presented to the General Anti-slavery Convention Held in London, June 1840 |
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... Georgia in 1838 . The number of slaves in the nominally free states is taken from the national census of 1830. It must be considerably less now than it was ten years ago , there being no additions to it by birth or otherwise . B FREE ...
... Georgia in 1838 . The number of slaves in the nominally free states is taken from the national census of 1830. It must be considerably less now than it was ten years ago , there being no additions to it by birth or otherwise . B FREE ...
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... Georgia 279,740 New Jersey 2,254 Kentucky . 215,378 Pensylvania . 403 Tennessee .. 250,307 Ohio .. 6 Alabama 244,324 Indiana . 3 Mississippi .. 215,742 Illinois . 747 Louisiana .. 173,296 Michigan 32 Missouri .. 55,396 Arkansas 12,946 ...
... Georgia 279,740 New Jersey 2,254 Kentucky . 215,378 Pensylvania . 403 Tennessee .. 250,307 Ohio .. 6 Alabama 244,324 Indiana . 3 Mississippi .. 215,742 Illinois . 747 Louisiana .. 173,296 Michigan 32 Missouri .. 55,396 Arkansas 12,946 ...
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... Georgia 1789 52,886 29,264 3,899 1 6,153 8,043 6105,635 3,214 12,766 10 345,796 4,975 5 133,296 1 801 5 146,151 39 3 59,404 4,177 55,282 4,50 57,601 3,292 111,502 260,222 107.398 291,105 10.994 15,855 52,938 76,748 2,100 36 59 57 ...
... Georgia 1789 52,886 29,264 3,899 1 6,153 8,043 6105,635 3,214 12,766 10 345,796 4,975 5 133,296 1 801 5 146,151 39 3 59,404 4,177 55,282 4,50 57,601 3,292 111,502 260,222 107.398 291,105 10.994 15,855 52,938 76,748 2,100 36 59 57 ...
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... GEORGIA 1800 1810 415,115 69,524 1820 502,741 87,426 1830 581,185 78,444 1790 82,548 345,591 96,518 35.7509 20.1174 322,112 133.3392 21.1088 15.6033 ) 1800 162,101 79,553 1810 252,433 90,332 55.7258 434,275 1820 340,989 88,556 35.0810 ...
... GEORGIA 1800 1810 415,115 69,524 1820 502,741 87,426 1830 581,185 78,444 1790 82,548 345,591 96,518 35.7509 20.1174 322,112 133.3392 21.1088 15.6033 ) 1800 162,101 79,553 1810 252,433 90,332 55.7258 434,275 1820 340,989 88,556 35.0810 ...
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... GEORGIA .... 1790 29,264 50,214 34.3576 208,307 194.5086 31.6299 56,926 22.0238 1800 59,404 1810 105,218 1820 149,656 44,438 30,140 102.9934 45,814 72.1228 42.2342 188,267 643.3399 1830 217,531 67,875 45.354 KENTUCKY .... 1790 11,830 ...
... GEORGIA .... 1790 29,264 50,214 34.3576 208,307 194.5086 31.6299 56,926 22.0238 1800 59,404 1810 105,218 1820 149,656 44,438 30,140 102.9934 45,814 72.1228 42.2342 188,267 643.3399 1830 217,531 67,875 45.354 KENTUCKY .... 1790 11,830 ...
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Page 222 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 258 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Page 211 - I warn the abolitionists," says South Carolina, "ignorant, infuriated barbarians as they are, that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands, he may expect a felon's death.".
Page 260 - That no law shall be passed to prevent the poor in the several Counties and townships within this State from an equal participation in the schools, academies, colleges, and universities within this State which are endowed, in whole or in part, from the revenue arising from donations made by the United States for the support of schools and colleges...
Page 194 - Neither of these is, to any extent worth naming, enjoyed by slaves, as a moment's consideration will satisfactorily show. The law, as it is here, does not prevent free access to the scriptures — but ignorance, the natural result of their condition, does. The Bible is before them, but it is to them a sealed book. " The light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not.
Page 169 - ... conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the...
Page 191 - ... corrected without trial, by receiving, on the bare back, twenty-five stripes with a whip, switch, or cow-skin.' " In South Carolina, slaves may not meet together for the purpose of ' religious worship ' before sunrise or after sunset, unless the majority of the meeting be composed of white persons, under the penalty of 'twenty lashes well laid on.
Page 245 - The President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the Republic — Be it known : That in the year 1829, being desirous of...
Page 25 - ... life. From the right bank, on the contrary, a confused hum is heard which proclaims the presence of industry; the fields are covered with abundant harvests, the elegance of the dwellings announces the taste and activity of the...