 I can with truth and sincerity declare, that I have found amongst the negroes as great variety of talents, as among a like number of whites ; and I am bold to assert, that the notion entertained by some that the blacks are inferior in their capacities,...  Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet - Page 28by Roberts Vaux - 1817 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 944 pages
...like number of whites, aud I urn bold to assert that the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior In their capacities, Is a vulgar prejudice,...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." When the education of colored youth was taken up by the Society of Friends, Benezet volunteered to... | |
 | 1871 - 1022 pages
...like number of whites, and I am bold to assert that the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice,...their lordly masters, who have kept their slaves at sucli a distance as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." When the education of colored youth... | |
 | United States. Department of Education - 1871 - 944 pages
...entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice, founded ou the pride or ignorance of their lordly masters, who have kept their slaves at stich a distance as to he unable to form a right judgment of them." When the education of colored youth... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1152 pages
...bold to assert that the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacity, is a vulgar prejudice, founded on the pride or ignorance...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." He died on the 3d of May, 1784, universally beloved and sincerely mourned, especially by the Negro... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1883 - 648 pages
...PENNSYLVANIA. the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacity, is ;i vulgar prejudice, founded on the pride or ignorance...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." He died on the jd of May, 1784, universally beloved and sincerely mourned, especially by the Negro... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1886 - 720 pages
...number of whites, and I am bold to assert, that the 217 notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice,...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." Benezet introduced a great reform in the school discipline of the times. He discarded force and governed... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 pages
...slaveholders, he had the boldness to assert that " the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice,...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." Five years later he established a school for girls, which, owing to its excellence, was patronized... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 478 pages
...like number of whites, and I am bold to assert, that the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice,...as to be unable to form a right judgment of them." 28 His devotion to this work was further demonstrated by another noble deed. His will provided that... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 508 pages
...like number of whites, and I am bold to assert, that the notion entertained by some, that the blacks are inferior in their capacities, is a vulgar prejudice,...distance as to be unable to form a right judgment of them."28 His devotion to this work was further demonstrated by another noble deed. His will provided... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson - 1919 - 482 pages
...asserted that the notion entertained by some that the blacks were inferior in their capacities was a vulgar prejudice founded on the pride or ignorance of their lordly masters who had kept their slaves at such a distance as to be unable to form a right judgment of them.3 1 Smyth,... | |
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