Autographs for Freedom. [2d Series] Ed. by Julia Griffiths1854 - 309 páginas |
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... soon pass away . Of the three hundred and eleven persons residing in " Blount's Fort " not more than twenty had been actually held in servitude . The others were descended from slave parents , who fled from Georgia , and , according to ...
... soon pass away . Of the three hundred and eleven persons residing in " Blount's Fort " not more than twenty had been actually held in servitude . The others were descended from slave parents , who fled from Georgia , and , according to ...
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... soon a midshipman and twelve men were observed making for the shore . They were met at the water's edge by some half dozen of the principal men in the Fort , and their errand demanded . The young officer told them he was sent to make ...
... soon a midshipman and twelve men were observed making for the shore . They were met at the water's edge by some half dozen of the principal men in the Fort , and their errand demanded . The young officer told them he was sent to make ...
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... agonized fathers and mothers on that bloody day . A cannonade was soon commenced upon the Fort , but without much apparent effect . The shots were harmless ; they penetrated the earth of which the walls AT BLOUNT'S FORT . 21.
... agonized fathers and mothers on that bloody day . A cannonade was soon commenced upon the Fort , but without much apparent effect . The shots were harmless ; they penetrated the earth of which the walls AT BLOUNT'S FORT . 21.
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... soon as the slaveholders were fairly in possession of their victims . The sailors ap- peared gloomy and thoughtful as they returned to their vessels . The anchors were weighed , the sails unfurled , and both vessels hurried from the ...
... soon as the slaveholders were fairly in possession of their victims . The sailors ap- peared gloomy and thoughtful as they returned to their vessels . The anchors were weighed , the sails unfurled , and both vessels hurried from the ...
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... 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 sufficient to establish a title to a dog . In vain the wretched man declared ...
... 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 sufficient to establish a title to a dog . In vain the wretched man declared ...
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Abolitionist African Albert American anti-slavery Autographs for Freedom beautiful believe Bible blessed blood bondage Buttre called Captain Templeton cause Christ Christian Clarkson colored crime curse dark dear death divine Douglass earth England Engraved evil feel Frank Frederick Douglass friends Fugitive Slave Law give God's Gracelius Granville Sharp happy heart heaven honor hope human clay institution interest Jesus labor liberty look Lord Loxian malum in se Mary Mary Smith master ment mind moral mother nations nature negro never o'er Ogé oppression passed persons piracy pirates pleasure prayer principles race religion replied slaveholders slavery smile soon soul spirit stand sympathy thee THENEW YORK things Thomas Clarkson thou thought TILDEN tion true truth Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin vessel Vincent Ogé Ward Whig words wrong young
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Página 40 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Página 301 - They understand that the warfare is against " principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
Página 291 - 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 213 - 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 193 - Hell-doomed, and breath'st defiance here and scorn Where I reign king, and to enrage thee more, Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, 700 Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Página 78 - 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 hour after, I entered Westminster Abbey, at Poets' Corner, and proceeded in search of the patriot's tomb.
Página 224 - ... call evil good, and good evil; put darkness for light, and light for darkness...
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 203 - ... assisted in protecting the rights of human nature, and establishing an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.
Página 117 - 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.