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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... lived for two hundred years without personal effort or productive indus- try , in extravagance and indolence , sustained alone by the return from the sales of the increase of slaves , and retaining merely such a number as your now ...
... lived for two hundred years without personal effort or productive indus- try , in extravagance and indolence , sustained alone by the return from the sales of the increase of slaves , and retaining merely such a number as your now ...
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... lived but two or three weeks . After its death the planter called the woman to him , and asked her how she came to let the child die ; said it was all owing to her carelessness , and that he meant to flog her for it . She told him ...
... lived but two or three weeks . After its death the planter called the woman to him , and asked her how she came to let the child die ; said it was all owing to her carelessness , and that he meant to flog her for it . She told him ...
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... lived within half - a - mile of Mr. Hughes ' farm : --- Hughes and Neil traded in slaves down the river ; they had bought up a part of their stock in the upper counties of Kentucky , and brought them down to Louisville , where the ...
... lived within half - a - mile of Mr. Hughes ' farm : --- Hughes and Neil traded in slaves down the river ; they had bought up a part of their stock in the upper counties of Kentucky , and brought them down to Louisville , where the ...
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... lived with her parents until the death of her mother ; she was then seized and sold . The following are the facts as she stated them : -One day , when near the Potomac bridge , the sheriff overtook her , and told her that she must go ...
... lived with her parents until the death of her mother ; she was then seized and sold . The following are the facts as she stated them : -One day , when near the Potomac bridge , the sheriff overtook her , and told her that she must go ...
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... lived in unbroken union , anticipating no fiery trials of violent sunderings . It is true they frequently witnessed the separations of hus- bands and wives , as the ' soul - drivers ' went round upon their annual circuits of horror and ...
... lived in unbroken union , anticipating no fiery trials of violent sunderings . It is true they frequently witnessed the separations of hus- bands and wives , as the ' soul - drivers ' went round upon their annual circuits of horror and ...
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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...