Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on American SlaveryS.W. Benedict, 1837 - 142 páginas |
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... Christians to seek for a knowledge of the condition of the heathen , in foreign lands , when they may know , and should ... Christian Republic , to be familiarly acquainted . In selecting such facts as it was deemed proper to present on ...
... Christians to seek for a knowledge of the condition of the heathen , in foreign lands , when they may know , and should ... Christian Republic , to be familiarly acquainted . In selecting such facts as it was deemed proper to present on ...
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... CHRISTIAN AND ENLIGHTENED COUNTRY , Be it enacted , & c . That if any person shall hereafter be guilty of wilfully and mali- ciously killing a slave , such offender shall , upon the first conviction thereof , be adjudged guilty of ...
... CHRISTIAN AND ENLIGHTENED COUNTRY , Be it enacted , & c . That if any person shall hereafter be guilty of wilfully and mali- ciously killing a slave , such offender shall , upon the first conviction thereof , be adjudged guilty of ...
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... Christian country , and will bear comparison with heathen in any country in the world . In the vast field extending from an entire state beyond the Potomac to the Sabine river ; and from the Atlantic to the Ohio , there are , to the ...
... Christian country , and will bear comparison with heathen in any country in the world . In the vast field extending from an entire state beyond the Potomac to the Sabine river ; and from the Atlantic to the Ohio , there are , to the ...
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... Christian world , that hea- thenism is as real in the slave States as it is in the South Sea Islands , and that our negroes are as justly objects of attention to the American and other boards of foreign missions , as the Indians of the ...
... Christian world , that hea- thenism is as real in the slave States as it is in the South Sea Islands , and that our negroes are as justly objects of attention to the American and other boards of foreign missions , as the Indians of the ...
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... Christian father sell his own daughter , and the brother his own sister , by the same father . CHAPTER VI . BEARING OF SLAVERY UPON THE MORAL CHARACTER OF SLAVEHOLDERS . Testimony of Thomas Jefferson . The whole commerce between master ...
... Christian father sell his own daughter , and the brother his own sister , by the same father . CHAPTER VI . BEARING OF SLAVERY UPON THE MORAL CHARACTER OF SLAVEHOLDERS . Testimony of Thomas Jefferson . The whole commerce between master ...
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Página 127 - The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the Legislature, or any branch of government ; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Página 31 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Página 127 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Página 123 - ... empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Página 123 - ... and upon proof, to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, either by oral testimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such State or Territory, that the person so seized or arrested doth, under the laws of the State or Territory from which he or she fled...
Página 125 - Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavors to accomplish so desirable an object.
Página 49 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 30 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 17 - Any person who shall maliciously dismember, or deprive a slave of life shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offence had been committed on a free white person, and on the like proof, except in case of insurrection of such slave.
Página 129 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.