A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their EconomyMason, 1856 - 723 страници |
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... Planting and Grazing , 628 ; Negro Cabins , 629 ; Positive Morality , A Secret Agent of Satan , 630 ; Buying the ... Planters , 652 ; Cuba , 655 ; Visit to a Sugar Plantation , 656 ; Relation of Slaves and Owner , 658 ; Treatment of ...
... Planting and Grazing , 628 ; Negro Cabins , 629 ; Positive Morality , A Secret Agent of Satan , 630 ; Buying the ... Planters , 652 ; Cuba , 655 ; Visit to a Sugar Plantation , 656 ; Relation of Slaves and Owner , 658 ; Treatment of ...
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... planter's wealth . Such a nigger is worth such a price , and such another is too old to learn to pick cotton , and such ... Planters command their girls and women ( married or unmarried ) to have children ; and I have known a great many ...
... planter's wealth . Such a nigger is worth such a price , and such another is too old to learn to pick cotton , and such ... Planters command their girls and women ( married or unmarried ) to have children ; and I have known a great many ...
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... planters , of his vicinity , who still made the culture of tobacco their principal business . He said there was a general prejudice against tobacco , in all the tide- water region of the State , because it was through the culture of ...
... planters , of his vicinity , who still made the culture of tobacco their principal business . He said there was a general prejudice against tobacco , in all the tide- water region of the State , because it was through the culture of ...
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... planters ' mansions , often of great size and of some elegance , stand upon the bank , and sometimes these have very pretty and well - kept grounds about them - finer than any other I have seen at the South - and the plantations ...
... planters ' mansions , often of great size and of some elegance , stand upon the bank , and sometimes these have very pretty and well - kept grounds about them - finer than any other I have seen at the South - and the plantations ...
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... planter told me that he had sometimes had them brought in at twelve or thirteen years old , that had escaped the vigilance of the overseer up to that age . The only whipping of slaves that I have seen in Virginia , has been of these ...
... planter told me that he had sometimes had them brought in at twelve or thirteen years old , that had escaped the vigilance of the overseer up to that age . The only whipping of slaves that I have seen in Virginia , has been of these ...
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Страница 269 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa. Yet our repeated attempts to effect this, by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to a prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative...
Страница 270 - Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. They prevent the emigration of whites, who really enrich and strengthen a country. They produce the most pernicious effect on manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country.
Страница 457 - Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works : shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Страница 182 - Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Страница 264 - Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united.
Страница 4 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Страница 266 - Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit that Nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing only to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Страница 278 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Страница 123 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Страница 270 - As to the States being in possession of the right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential in every point of view, that the General GOvernment should have power to prevent the increase of slavery.