An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as SoldiersJ. Wilson and son, 1862 - 236 páginas |
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... traffic , whenever a profit could be made by it . This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race . It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics , which no one thought of ...
... traffic , whenever a profit could be made by it . This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race . It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics , which no one thought of ...
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... traffic in slaves , to show the degra- dation of negro slavery in our country . This system was imposed upon our colonial settlements by the mother country ; and it is due to truth to say , that the commercial colonies and States were ...
... traffic in slaves , to show the degra- dation of negro slavery in our country . This system was imposed upon our colonial settlements by the mother country ; and it is due to truth to say , that the commercial colonies and States were ...
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George Livermore. McLean . Judge rather than to look behind that period into a traffic which is now declared to be piracy , and punished with death by Christian nations . I do not like to draw the sources of our domestic relations from ...
George Livermore. McLean . Judge rather than to look behind that period into a traffic which is now declared to be piracy , and punished with death by Christian nations . I do not like to draw the sources of our domestic relations from ...
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... traffic : they were , however , before the Revolution , vetoed by the Royal Governors . One of the first acts of the Continental Congress , unanimously subscribed by its members , was an agreement neither to import , nor purchase any ...
... traffic : they were , however , before the Revolution , vetoed by the Royal Governors . One of the first acts of the Continental Congress , unanimously subscribed by its members , was an agreement neither to import , nor purchase any ...
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... and justice . towards this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discoura- to Con- gress , 1790 . Franklin . ging every species of traffic in the persons 7 MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS . 49.
... and justice . towards this distressed race ; and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discoura- to Con- gress , 1790 . Franklin . ging every species of traffic in the persons 7 MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS . 49.
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Página 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Página 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Página 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Página 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Página 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Página xvi - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Página xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 49 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.