Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-slavery Writings, 1760-1820James G. Basker Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2007 - 372 страници This compilation reprints fifteen anti-slavery texts that, almost without exception, have been out of print for nearly two centuries. The pamphlets, poems, letters, and other documents by anti-slavery writers-men and women, black and white-demonstrate that abolitionists were active in the early years of the American republic. The book's texts are reprinted with short introductions written by 12 Gilder Lehrman history scholars. --Amazon.com |
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... enslave , or to afford aid to enslave them , than they have to do the same to us . They have the same right to their freedom , which they have to their property or to their lives . Therefore to enslave them is as really and in the same ...
... enslave , or to afford aid to enslave them , than they have to do the same to us . They have the same right to their freedom , which they have to their property or to their lives . Therefore to enslave them is as really and in the same ...
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... enslave- ment . They buy all that are offered , provided they like them and the price . So that the plea , that the African slaves are captives in war , is entirely insufficient to justify the slave - trade as now carried on . But this ...
... enslave- ment . They buy all that are offered , provided they like them and the price . So that the plea , that the African slaves are captives in war , is entirely insufficient to justify the slave - trade as now carried on . But this ...
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... enslave other citizens of the same country ; nay , that some have a right to enslave their own brothers and sis- ters . — But if this argument mean , that God in his providence suffers some men to be enslaved , and that this proves ...
... enslave other citizens of the same country ; nay , that some have a right to enslave their own brothers and sis- ters . — But if this argument mean , that God in his providence suffers some men to be enslaved , and that this proves ...
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Or Observations on SlaveKeeping | 2 |
The African Chief | 7 |
3 A Serious Address to the Rulers of America on the Inconsistency | 53 |
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