An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections: And Others, which Have Occurred, Or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. With Various RemarksAmerican Antislavery Society, 1860 - 36 strani |
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Stran 3 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Stran 17 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Stran 3 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Stran 8 - ... odious courses, justly abhorred of all good and just men, do order that the negro interpreter with others unlawfully taken, be by the first opportunity at the charge of the country for the present, sent to his native country (Guinea) and a letter with him of the indignation of the Court thereabouts, and justice thereof desiring our honored Governor would please put this order in execution.
Stran 8 - Mr. Maverick was desirous to have a breed of Negroes, and therefore seeing she would not yield by...
Stran 8 - The General Court, conceiving themselves bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what...
Stran 29 - Resolved, That the Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States be instructed and the Representatives be requested to oppose the restoration of the deposits and the renewal of the charter of the United States Bank.
Stran 29 - Any slave or free colored person found at any school for teaching reading or writing, by day or night, may be whipped, at the discretion of a justice, not exceeding twenty lashes.
Stran 32 - ... might be acted over at any time and in any place,— that the materials for it were spread through the land, and were always ready for a like explosion. Nothing but the force of this withering apprehension,— nothing but the paralyzing and deadening weight with which it falls upon and prostrates the heart of every man who has helpless dependants to...
Stran 9 - two or three negroes are brought from Barbadoes and other of his Majesty's plantations and sold for twenty pounds apiece ; so that there may be within the government about one hundred or one hundred and twenty, and it may be as many Scots, brought hither and sold for servants in the time of the war with Scotland, and about half as many Irish.