The Pro-Slavery Argument; As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States, Containing the Several Essays, on the Subject, of ChScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1852 - 496 pages |
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... which have been practised towards our aboriginal Indians , by which they have been driven from their native seats and exterminated , and no doubt with much justice . No doubt , much fraud 14 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . تم.
... which have been practised towards our aboriginal Indians , by which they have been driven from their native seats and exterminated , and no doubt with much justice . No doubt , much fraud 14 HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . تم.
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... , to see slaves , after many descents and having mingled their blood with the Africans , pos- sessing Indian hair and features . lation , which pronounces- " ye shall have dominion over HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . 15.
... , to see slaves , after many descents and having mingled their blood with the Africans , pos- sessing Indian hair and features . lation , which pronounces- " ye shall have dominion over HARPER'S MEMOIR ON SLAVERY . 15.
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... Indian negro , therefore , greatly indebted to his master for making him what he is - for having raised him from the state of debasement in which he was born , and placed him in a scale of civilized society ? How can he repay him ? He ...
... Indian negro , therefore , greatly indebted to his master for making him what he is - for having raised him from the state of debasement in which he was born , and placed him in a scale of civilized society ? How can he repay him ? He ...
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... India and the golden Chersonese , And utmost India's isle , Taprobona , Dusk faces , with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia , Gades , and the British West ; Germans , and Scythians , and Sarmatians , North Beyond Danubius to ...
... India and the golden Chersonese , And utmost India's isle , Taprobona , Dusk faces , with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia , Gades , and the British West ; Germans , and Scythians , and Sarmatians , North Beyond Danubius to ...
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... Indian or American slaves , or Irish tenantry . We feel this evil greatly even here . You describe the use of thumb screws , as one mode of punishment among us . I doubt if a thumb screw can be found in America . I never saw or heard of ...
... Indian or American slaves , or Irish tenantry . We feel this evil greatly even here . You describe the use of thumb screws , as one mode of punishment among us . I doubt if a thumb screw can be found in America . I never saw or heard of ...
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Page 156 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page 105 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 156 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 167 - There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Page 107 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 413 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 158 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 455 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 436 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 459 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence...