Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice; Its Wrongs; Its Contrariety to Many Scriptural Commands, Prohibitions, and Principles, and to the Christian Spirit; and from Its Evil Effects; Together with Observations on Emancipation, and the Duties of American Citizens in Regard to Slavery, Том 1L. Swormstedt & J. H. Power, 1850 |
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... kill at once , by one blow , or the discharge of a rifle ; while another may , in a more inhuman way , really butcher his victim ; but in both cases it is murder . A member of Congress for Massachusetts thus describes the home traffic ...
... kill at once , by one blow , or the discharge of a rifle ; while another may , in a more inhuman way , really butcher his victim ; but in both cases it is murder . A member of Congress for Massachusetts thus describes the home traffic ...
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... kill him ; but as the twenty pieces of silver were greater gain than to merely kill him , they commuted murder for gain ; and unless slavery will pay , who would be slaveholders ? As a specimen of profit , take the following : AFRICAN ...
... kill him ; but as the twenty pieces of silver were greater gain than to merely kill him , they commuted murder for gain ; and unless slavery will pay , who would be slaveholders ? As a specimen of profit , take the following : AFRICAN ...
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... killed on the cotton and sugar plantations in the south for 10 years . Taking the census of 1840 , and following the same standard - the number of the free people of color — there ought to be 829,698 slaves between the ages of 10 and ...
... killed on the cotton and sugar plantations in the south for 10 years . Taking the census of 1840 , and following the same standard - the number of the free people of color — there ought to be 829,698 slaves between the ages of 10 and ...
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... killed in the scuffle ; but many of them actually jumped into the sea and were drowned ; thus preferring death to the misery of their situation ; while others hung to the ship , repenting of their rashness , and bewailing with frightful ...
... killed in the scuffle ; but many of them actually jumped into the sea and were drowned ; thus preferring death to the misery of their situation ; while others hung to the ship , repenting of their rashness , and bewailing with frightful ...
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... killing a husband being a slave , any more than admitted to an appeal for murder . " ( See Stroud , p . 61. ) 2. Slavery annihilates the right of marriage . The master has power to prevent the marriage of his slaves , or separate them ...
... killing a husband being a slave , any more than admitted to an appeal for murder . " ( See Stroud , p . 61. ) 2. Slavery annihilates the right of marriage . The master has power to prevent the marriage of his slaves , or separate them ...
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Страница 263 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
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