"Liberty."American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839 - 141 pages |
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... soul must be melted with pity , or he can never escape the punishment which awaits the hard - hearted , equally with the impenitent , in the regions of misery.— Paradise of Negro Slaves . About the year 1775 , I read a short essay with ...
... soul must be melted with pity , or he can never escape the punishment which awaits the hard - hearted , equally with the impenitent , in the regions of misery.— Paradise of Negro Slaves . About the year 1775 , I read a short essay with ...
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... things on the subject ; a serious view of which gives a gloomy perspective to future times ! -Letter to Robert Pleasants . I repeat it again , that it would rejoice my very soul that every one 12 JAMES MONROE - JOHN JAY JOEL BARLOW . of.
... things on the subject ; a serious view of which gives a gloomy perspective to future times ! -Letter to Robert Pleasants . I repeat it again , that it would rejoice my very soul that every one 12 JAMES MONROE - JOHN JAY JOEL BARLOW . of.
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... to sing , for what avails To harp for you these known familiar tales ; To tongue mute misery , and re - rack the soul With crimes oft copied from that bloody scroll , SAMUEL ADAMS - KOSCIUSKO . Where slavery pens her woes.
... to sing , for what avails To harp for you these known familiar tales ; To tongue mute misery , and re - rack the soul With crimes oft copied from that bloody scroll , SAMUEL ADAMS - KOSCIUSKO . Where slavery pens her woes.
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... soul when I reflect , that this is indeed but a copy of the very barbarity which my eyes have seen in my own native country . And yet we boast of liberty and national justice . How frequently in the southern states of my own country ...
... soul when I reflect , that this is indeed but a copy of the very barbarity which my eyes have seen in my own native country . And yet we boast of liberty and national justice . How frequently in the southern states of my own country ...
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... soul has become callous . But here , sir , individuals , whom the master has known from infancy , whom he has seen sporting in the innocent gambols of childhood , who have been accustomed to look to him for protection , he tears from ...
... soul has become callous . But here , sir , individuals , whom the master has known from infancy , whom he has seen sporting in the innocent gambols of childhood , who have been accustomed to look to him for protection , he tears from ...
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abolished abolition of slavery African American Anti-Slavery authority avarice BENJAMIN LUNDY blood bondage brethren Brevard's Digest Britain British cause chains Christian citizens civil Coahuila colonies color congress constitution court crime cruel cruelty dare declared degraded Domingo earth ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER emancipation equal evil feelings freedom friends Georgia give GRANVILLE SHARP hand happiness heart honor human Indian inhabitants JOHN JOSEPH RITNER justice labor land lashes legislature liberty master mercy mestizoes Mexican Mexico misery moral mulatto nation nature negroes never NEW-ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY offence oppression owner poor possess principles PRUDENCE CRANDALL punishment purchase republic SLAVE LAWS slave or slaves slave-trade slaveholding society soul South Carolina spirit suffer territory Texas Texian thee things THOMAS THOMAS CLARKSON thou thousand Toussaint Toussaint L'Ouverture tyrants Union United unto violation Virginia whip white person WILLIAM
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Page 118 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Page 5 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Page 118 - ... and cinnamon and odours and ointments, and frankincense and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts and sheep and horses, and chariots and slaves and souls of men.
Page 4 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 97 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 118 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another, 14.
Page 76 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 117 - But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 24 - That the senators and representatives of this state, in the congress of the United States...
Page 97 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man?