The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African DescentJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1914 - 284 pages |
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... South America . The exception but proves the rule that the Negro came to the New World as a slave . He was stolen from or bought on the West Coast of Africa to add to the wealth of America by his toil as bondman and laborer . Slavery ...
... South America . The exception but proves the rule that the Negro came to the New World as a slave . He was stolen from or bought on the West Coast of Africa to add to the wealth of America by his toil as bondman and laborer . Slavery ...
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... South Carolina the first legis- lation respecting it was February 7 , 1690 , before the two colonies were separated . The charter of Georgia prohibited slavery at 3 Lalor's Cyclopedia , Vol . III . Holmes Amer . Annals , Vol . I. 4 ...
... South Carolina the first legis- lation respecting it was February 7 , 1690 , before the two colonies were separated . The charter of Georgia prohibited slavery at 3 Lalor's Cyclopedia , Vol . III . Holmes Amer . Annals , Vol . I. 4 ...
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... South . This may be attributable to economic rather than to any moral causes . The African was fitted for service only as an agricultural laborer , and the character , size and loca- tion of the farms in New England and the Middle ...
... South . This may be attributable to economic rather than to any moral causes . The African was fitted for service only as an agricultural laborer , and the character , size and loca- tion of the farms in New England and the Middle ...
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... South Carolina , also cotton , favored the employment of a large number of slaves in the southern section of our country . In both North and South the status of the slave was the same . In the eyes of the law he was a thing , a piece of ...
... South Carolina , also cotton , favored the employment of a large number of slaves in the southern section of our country . In both North and South the status of the slave was the same . In the eyes of the law he was a thing , a piece of ...
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... South Carolina refers to the purchase of two young Negroes when thoroughly qualified to become schoolmasters among their fellows . One such school was actually opened in Charleston , S. C. , in which 1 Special Report U. S. Com . of ...
... South Carolina refers to the purchase of two young Negroes when thoroughly qualified to become schoolmasters among their fellows . One such school was actually opened in Charleston , S. C. , in which 1 Special Report U. S. Com . of ...
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Page 78 - Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die.
Page 185 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 94 - I can add with truth, that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both of their body and mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances which cannot be neglected, will admit.
Page 94 - I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society, because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.
Page 83 - I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents; in honor of which and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem had I not been apprehensive that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity.
Page 112 - Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Page 93 - This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced stage of life; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein, through my own assiduous application to Astronomical Study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages which I have had to encounter.
Page 91 - feel gratified in the opportunity of presenting to the public, through their press, what must be considered as an extraordinary effort of genius — a complete and accurate Ephemeris for the year 1792, calculated by a sable descendant of Africa.
Page 94 - Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men; and that the appearance of the want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 56 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.