An Inquiry Into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and American Anti-slavery SocietiesLeavitt, Lord & Company, 1835 - 206 pages |
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... address to the people of Great Britain his solemn protest against the doc- trines and conduct of the American Colonization Society . This Institution may have been formed by good men , and from the purest motives , yet it is possible ...
... address to the people of Great Britain his solemn protest against the doc- trines and conduct of the American Colonization Society . This Institution may have been formed by good men , and from the purest motives , yet it is possible ...
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... addresses in favour of intermarriages between whites and blacks — should auxiliaries pass resolutions approving of such marriages - should these addresses and resolutions be published and circulated at the expense of the Society , and ...
... addresses in favour of intermarriages between whites and blacks — should auxiliaries pass resolutions approving of such marriages - should these addresses and resolutions be published and circulated at the expense of the Society , and ...
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... addresses . In the following pages will be found numerous extracts from Colonization documents ; and it is right to observe , that they are for the most part , merely selections , and bearing generally but a small pro- portion to the ...
... addresses . In the following pages will be found numerous extracts from Colonization documents ; and it is right to observe , that they are for the most part , merely selections , and bearing generally but a small pro- portion to the ...
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... Address of C. C. Harper , Af . Rep . II . 189 . " A horde of miserable people - the objects of universal suspicion - subsisting by plunder . " Speech of Gen. Mercer , Vice President . น " Of all classes of our population , the most ...
... Address of C. C. Harper , Af . Rep . II . 189 . " A horde of miserable people - the objects of universal suspicion - subsisting by plunder . " Speech of Gen. Mercer , Vice President . น " Of all classes of our population , the most ...
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... Address before the Lynchburgh Col. Soc . " There is a class ( free blacks ) among us , introduced by violence , notoriously ignorant , degraded and miserable , mentally diseased , broken spirited , acted upon by no mo- tives to ...
... Address before the Lynchburgh Col. Soc . " There is a class ( free blacks ) among us , introduced by violence , notoriously ignorant , degraded and miserable , mentally diseased , broken spirited , acted upon by no mo- tives to ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 142 - ... character and condition of the people of color, by encouraging their intel-lectual, moral, and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice, that thus they may, according to their intellectual and moral worth, share an equality with the whites, of civil and religious privileges; but this Society will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed in vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 164 - While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences, that slaveholding is a heinous crime in the sight of God...
Page 20 - The habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society — prejudices which neither refinement, nor argument, nor education, nor religion itself, can subdue — mark the people of color, whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation inevitable and incurable.
Page 175 - the colony was flourishing under Toussaint — the whites lived happily, and in peace upon their estates, and the negroes continued to work for them.
Page 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.