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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... laws , which you only can abrogate . View your negro laws calculated not to protect and defend them , but to augment and heighten their calamitous situation ! Cast out and rejected by the regulations formed for the defence and secu ...
... laws , which you only can abrogate . View your negro laws calculated not to protect and defend them , but to augment and heighten their calamitous situation ! Cast out and rejected by the regulations formed for the defence and secu ...
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... laws . Connecticut and Rhode Island passed laws in 1784 that provided for gradual emancipation , though in the end no slaves were actually freed by them . In 1787 Delaware passed an act that allowed private manumissions . 30 Isaiah 58 ...
... laws . Connecticut and Rhode Island passed laws in 1784 that provided for gradual emancipation , though in the end no slaves were actually freed by them . In 1787 Delaware passed an act that allowed private manumissions . 30 Isaiah 58 ...
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... laws pro- tecting the rights of African Americans in Pennsylvania can be explained as a case of the government not adjusting to the decline of slavery - as the old institution began to fade , new laws to restrict the rights of free ...
... laws pro- tecting the rights of African Americans in Pennsylvania can be explained as a case of the government not adjusting to the decline of slavery - as the old institution began to fade , new laws to restrict the rights of free ...
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Or Observations on SlaveKeeping | 2 |
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