American Slave Trade; Or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers Take Free People from Some of the United States of America, and Carry Them Away, and Sell Them as Slaves in Other of the States; and of the Horrible Cruelties Practised in the Carrying on of this Most Infamous Traffic: With Reflections on the Project for Forming a Colony of American Blacks in Africa, and Certain Documents Respecting that ProjectC. Clement and published by J. M. Cobbett, 1822 - 119 sider |
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Side 49
... coloured people , as now are , or may become free , might be invited to settle as tenants , or eventual purchasers . The settle- ment might be committed to the care of proper agents , and if the profits should ultimately exceed a ...
... coloured people , as now are , or may become free , might be invited to settle as tenants , or eventual purchasers . The settle- ment might be committed to the care of proper agents , and if the profits should ultimately exceed a ...
Side 50
... coloured persons , legally free . 42. To those who may object to the pro- priety of exposing to public view such ... persons of colour , as are now free , and may desire the same , and for those who may be hereafter emancipated within ...
... coloured persons , legally free . 42. To those who may object to the pro- priety of exposing to public view such ... persons of colour , as are now free , and may desire the same , and for those who may be hereafter emancipated within ...
Side 59
... persons were returning from the horse races , a few miles north of the city of Washington , eight or ten years ago , they met on the road a free man of colour , who resided in the vicinity . They seized him , and bound him with ropes ...
... persons were returning from the horse races , a few miles north of the city of Washington , eight or ten years ago , they met on the road a free man of colour , who resided in the vicinity . They seized him , and bound him with ropes ...
Side 64
... coloured people were passing by ; and when just opposite , one of them elevating his manacles as high as he could reach , com- menced singing the favorite national song , " Hail Colum- bia ! happy land , " & c . N.B. This is an ...
... coloured people were passing by ; and when just opposite , one of them elevating his manacles as high as he could reach , com- menced singing the favorite national song , " Hail Colum- bia ! happy land , " & c . N.B. This is an ...
Side 73
... person who sold them . An African youth , in the city of Philadelphia , lately cut his throat almost mortally ... persons of colour , who were born free , and had een forcibly seized in the time of night , bound and transported in ...
... person who sold them . An African youth , in the city of Philadelphia , lately cut his throat almost mortally ... persons of colour , who were born free , and had een forcibly seized in the time of night , bound and transported in ...
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Side 93 - It is not for us to inquire why, in the creation of mankind, the inhabitants of the several parts of the earth were distinguished by a difference in feature or complexion. It is sufficient to know that all are the work of an Almighty hand.
Side 23 - England of his day, whatever its limitations, was seething with important movements as interesting, in slightly different applications, on this side of the Atlantic as well as on the other...
Side 37 - ... which maintains inviolably the maxims of public faith, the security of persons and property, and encourages in every authorized mode that general diffusion of knowledge which guarantees to public liberty its permanency and to those who possess the blessing the true enjoyment of it...
Side 112 - ... Those great ends, it is conceived, may be accomplished by making adequate provision for planting, in some salubrious and fertile region, a colony, to be composed of such of the above description of persons as may choose to emigrate ; and for extending to it the authority and protection of the United States, until it shall have attained sufficient strength and consistency to be left in a state of independence.
Side 109 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.
Side 109 - 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 color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Side 112 - ... the guilt and disgrace of which most of the civilized nations of the world were partakers) to become the honorable instrument, under Divine Providence, of conferring a still higher blessing...
Side iii - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Side 102 - The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them in their present state.-. You give them a higher relish for those privileges which they can never attain, and turn what you intend for a blessing into a curse.
Side 50 - States, for the purpose of obtaining a territory on the coast of Africa, or at some other place, not within any of the states or 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 hereafter be emancipated within this Commonwealth...