A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnappingauthor, John Bioren, Printer, 1817 - 94 strán (strany) |
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A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on ... Jesse Torrey Úplné zobrazenie - 1817 |
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Strana 63 - inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys \ And worse than all, and most to be
Strana 72 - of chorus: the air was sweet and plaintive, and the words literally translated were these: " The winds roared and the rains fell : The poor white man, faint and weary, Came and sat under our tree.— He has no mother to bring him milk; No wife to grind his corn. CHORUS. Let us pity the white
Strana 90 - The American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States." " Article II.—The object to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of colour, residing in our country, in Africa, or such other places as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Strana 41 - If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn? Or, why has man the will or
Strana 30 - That the Executive be requested to correspond with the President of the United States, for the purpose of obtaining a Territory upon the North Pacific, or at some other place, not within any of the states, or the territorial governments of the United States, to serve as an asylum for such persons of
Strana 71 - looked at me with silent wonder. The view of this extensive city.; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa. While
Strana 2 - of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "A
Strana 71 - hungry, she said she would procure me something to eat. She accordingly went out and returned in a short time with a very fine fish, which having caused to be half broiled upon some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality being thus performed
Strana 30 - the North Pacific, or at some other place, not within any of the states, or the territorial governments of the United States, to serve as an asylum for such persons of colour, as are now free, and may desire the same, and for those who may be hereafter emancipated within this commonwealth,
Strana 72 - such unexpected kindness and sleep fled from my eyes. In the morning I presented my compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons which remained on my waistcoat, the only recompence I could make her. " July 21st. I continued in the village all