Autographs for FreedomJulia Griffiths Alden, Beardsley & Company, 1854 - 309 páginas |
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... Moral , and Spiritual Condition of the Slave . The Bible versus Slavery • The Work Goes Bravely on • Jacob Abbott · • 134 139 • Anne P. Adams . J. M. Langston Rev. Dr. Willis . W. J. Watkins · 147 151 156 • The Encroachment of the Slave ...
... Moral , and Spiritual Condition of the Slave . The Bible versus Slavery • The Work Goes Bravely on • Jacob Abbott · • 134 139 • Anne P. Adams . J. M. Langston Rev. Dr. Willis . W. J. Watkins · 147 151 156 • The Encroachment of the Slave ...
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... moral sense of the com- munity , and to render the law intensely hateful . Very soon after the law went into operation , one of the pseudo judges created by it , surrendered an alleged slave , on evidence which no jury would have deemed ...
... moral sense of the com- munity , and to render the law intensely hateful . Very soon after the law went into operation , one of the pseudo judges created by it , surrendered an alleged slave , on evidence which no jury would have deemed ...
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... moral working of the law , has been very far from what its authors anticipated . The law was passed the 18th Septem- ber , 1850 , and , in two years and nine months , not fifty slaves have been recovered under it - not an average of ...
... moral working of the law , has been very far from what its authors anticipated . The law was passed the 18th Septem- ber , 1850 , and , in two years and nine months , not fifty slaves have been recovered under it - not an average of ...
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... moral infancy stand abashed in the presence of nature's noblemen ! So , mere complexion is elevated above character . Sensible men and women are not ashamed of the ac- knowledgment . The fact has a popular endorse- ment . People sneer ...
... moral infancy stand abashed in the presence of nature's noblemen ! So , mere complexion is elevated above character . Sensible men and women are not ashamed of the ac- knowledgment . The fact has a popular endorse- ment . People sneer ...
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... moral integrity pre- eminent over all else — all this could not make a black man the social equal of a white coxcomb , even though his brain were as blank as white paper , and his heart as black as darkness concentrated . leviate our ...
... moral integrity pre- eminent over all else — all this could not make a black man the social equal of a white coxcomb , even though his brain were as blank as white paper , and his heart as black as darkness concentrated . leviate our ...
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Abolitionist African Albert American anti-slavery beautiful Bible blood brother called Captain cause Christ Christian Clarkson colored common Humanity crime curse dark dear death divine Douglass earth evil feel Frank Frederick Douglass freedom friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law GERRIT SMITH give God's Gracelius Granville Sharp happy heart heaven honor hope institutions interest Jesus labor liberty look Lord Loxian malum in se mankind Mary master ment mind moral mother nations nature never northern o'er Ogé oppression passions persons piracy pirates pleasure prayer principles question race religion replied sentiments slaveholders slavery smile soon soul southern speak spirit spirit of Eden tell Templeton theatre thee things Thomas Clarkson thou thought tion true truth Uncle Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin vessel Vincent Ogé virtue Ward words wrong young
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Página 286 - These thoughts pressed upon me, and rendered the conflict difficult. "But the sacrifice of my prospects staggered me, I own, the most. When the other objections which I have related occurred to me, my enthusiasm instantly, like a flash of lightning, consumed them; but this stuck to me, and troubled me. I had ambition. I had a thirst after worldly interest and honors, and I could not extinguish it at once. I was more than two hours in solitude under this painful conflict. At length I yielded, not...
Página 287 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to — shut the gates...
Página 209 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 72 - Britain, who had labored so long and so successfully for the abolition of the slave trade, and the emancipation of the slaves of the West Indies; and I at once resolved to pay a visit to the grave of Wilberforce. A half an hour after, I entered Westminster Abbey, at Poets...
Página 111 - And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle.
Página 225 - ... call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ;"-]- and " think wickedly, that God is such an one as himself.
Página 111 - AC nso. and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, — — — — If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found oat my riddle.
Página 200 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Página 74 - African slave-trade, and prepared the way for the abolition of slavery in every colony of the empire. In the prosecution of these objects, he relied not in vain on God; but, in the progress, he was called to endure great obloquy and great opposition.
Página 294 - Eich and poor, churchmen and dissenters had adopted the measure. Even grocers had left off trading in the article in some places. In gentlemen's families, where the master had set the example, the servants had often voluntarily followed it...