An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and American Anti-slavery SocietiesR.G. Williams, 1837 - 206 pagina's |
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Pagina 49
... slave States , repealed their laws against the free blacks , and forborne to enact new ones ; their sincerity in ... holder . It is a treatise , in sober earnestness , on the means of perpetuating slavery , and increasing its profits ...
... slave States , repealed their laws against the free blacks , and forborne to enact new ones ; their sincerity in ... holder . It is a treatise , in sober earnestness , on the means of perpetuating slavery , and increasing its profits ...
Pagina 72
... slavery . Now it is obvious , that such an influence must operate in one or more of the following ways , viz .: 1. On the conscience of the slave holder , convincing him that slave holding is sinful , and that his Maker requires him to ...
... slavery . Now it is obvious , that such an influence must operate in one or more of the following ways , viz .: 1. On the conscience of the slave holder , convincing him that slave holding is sinful , and that his Maker requires him to ...
Pagina 73
... slavery . " We never made any headway , " says a British writer , " in the abolition of the slave trade , and of slavery , till it was taken up by the religious men , prosecuted as a concern of the soul , with reference to eternity ...
... slavery . " We never made any headway , " says a British writer , " in the abolition of the slave trade , and of slavery , till it was taken up by the religious men , prosecuted as a concern of the soul , with reference to eternity ...
Pagina 74
... slave holder in America learns that black men in Liberia are intelligent and respectable , he will release his slaves from their fetters . We wonder if similar intelligence from the West Indies will produce the same effect : if so , it ...
... slave holder in America learns that black men in Liberia are intelligent and respectable , he will release his slaves from their fetters . We wonder if similar intelligence from the West Indies will produce the same effect : if so , it ...
Pagina 75
... slave holder , will shrink from the relation he bears to her children . The poor creature whom he for- merly regarded as a few removes above the brute , will now present himself before the new associations of his master's mind , as his ...
... slave holder , will shrink from the relation he bears to her children . The poor creature whom he for- merly regarded as a few removes above the brute , will now present himself before the new associations of his master's mind , as his ...
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Pagina 133 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Pagina 1 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Pagina 163 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Pagina 146 - ... for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us in such a contest.
Pagina 128 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry, and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, but what must belong to his master.
Pagina 138 - In the vast field extending from an entire State beyond 'the Potomac, to the Sabine river, and from the Atlantic to the Ohio, there are to the best of our knowledge not twelve men exclusively devoted to the religious instruction of the negroes.
Pagina 175 - ... yet this plantation was thought to be under the worst discipline, and the slaves the most idle of any in the plain. I myself inspired the same activity into three other plantations of which I had the management." He goes on to assert that " the colony was flourishing under Toussaint — the whites lived happily, and in peace upon their estates, and the negroes continued to work for them.
Pagina 98 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it.
Pagina 138 - We cannot cry out against the Papists for withholding the Scriptures from the common people, and keeping them in ignorance of the way of life ; for we withhold the Bible from our servants, and keep them in ignorance of it, while we will not use the means to have it read and explained to them.
Pagina 83 - Slavery is not a national evil : on the contrary, it is a national benefit. ' Slavery exists in some form every where ; and it is not of much consequence, in a philosophical view, whether it be voluntary or not.