An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as SoldiersJ. Wilson and son, 1862 - 236 sider |
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... Massachusetts , in the earlier stages of the Revolution , negroes appear as acting with white citizens against the British , 114 , 132. - The Boston Massacre " and Crispus Attucks , 115–118 . · Peter Salem fights at the battle of Bunker ...
... Massachusetts , in the earlier stages of the Revolution , negroes appear as acting with white citizens against the British , 114 , 132. - The Boston Massacre " and Crispus Attucks , 115–118 . · Peter Salem fights at the battle of Bunker ...
Side 118
... PETER SALEM , a negro soldier , once a slave . Major Pitcairn , of the British Marines , it is well known , fell just as he mounted the redoubt , shout- ing " The day is ours ! " The shot which laid him low was fired by Peter Salem ...
... PETER SALEM , a negro soldier , once a slave . Major Pitcairn , of the British Marines , it is well known , fell just as he mounted the redoubt , shout- ing " The day is ours ! " The shot which laid him low was fired by Peter Salem ...
Side 119
... Peter " With regard to the black hero of Bunker Hill , I never Aaron knew him personally , nor did I ever hear from his lips the account story of his achievements ... Peter Salem . Emory Washburn . mere child BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL . 119.
... Peter " With regard to the black hero of Bunker Hill , I never Aaron knew him personally , nor did I ever hear from his lips the account story of his achievements ... Peter Salem . Emory Washburn . mere child BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL . 119.
Side 120
George Livermore. Account of Peter Salem . Emory Washburn . mere child , and witnessed the battle and the burning of Charlestown from Roxbury Hill , sitting on the shoulders of the Rev. Mr. Jackson , who said to him as he replaced him on ...
George Livermore. Account of Peter Salem . Emory Washburn . mere child , and witnessed the battle and the burning of Charlestown from Roxbury Hill , sitting on the shoulders of the Rev. Mr. Jackson , who said to him as he replaced him on ...
Side 121
... Massachusetts , where the honorable battle was fought ; but there it stands equally for Con- of Peter necticut , New Hampshire , and Rhode Island , and the Salem . younger sisters of the New - England family , Vermont and Maine , whose ...
... Massachusetts , where the honorable battle was fought ; but there it stands equally for Con- of Peter necticut , New Hampshire , and Rhode Island , and the Salem . younger sisters of the New - England family , Vermont and Maine , whose ...
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Side 17 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Side 18 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Side 3 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Side 16 - I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.
Side 2 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; M Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.
Side 7 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
Side xvi - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Side xvi - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Side 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Side 49 - 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.