Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on American Slavery |
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... belong to any slave or be of any slave's mark , in this state , shall be seized and sold by the County Wardens , and by them applied , the one half to the support of the poor of the county , and the 20 CIVIL CONDITION OF THE ENSLAVED .
... belong to any slave or be of any slave's mark , in this state , shall be seized and sold by the County Wardens , and by them applied , the one half to the support of the poor of the county , and the 20 CIVIL CONDITION OF THE ENSLAVED .
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... belong to his master . They were endowed with authority . 15. Eligible to offices . 1 Chron . xv . 18 ; xvi . 5 , 38 ; xxvi . 12 , 14 ; Matt . xxv . 21 ; 2 Sam . ix . 9 , 10 ; Neh . v . 15 . Not so in this nation . Here a slave cannot ...
... belong to his master . They were endowed with authority . 15. Eligible to offices . 1 Chron . xv . 18 ; xvi . 5 , 38 ; xxvi . 12 , 14 ; Matt . xxv . 21 ; 2 Sam . ix . 9 , 10 ; Neh . v . 15 . Not so in this nation . Here a slave cannot ...
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... belong . They were marriageable in the families of their masters . 17. Jewish masters were obligated to provide for the marriage of maid servants , if they did not take them to themselves , or sons . Ex . xxi . 8 . But American ...
... belong . They were marriageable in the families of their masters . 17. Jewish masters were obligated to provide for the marriage of maid servants , if they did not take them to themselves , or sons . Ex . xxi . 8 . But American ...
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... de facto , covet that which , in the very nature of things , must belong to his neigh- bor , and to which no circumstances can give him a just title . Oppression . 3. Slavery is the very worst form of 46 SCRIPTURE ARGUMENT.
... de facto , covet that which , in the very nature of things , must belong to his neigh- bor , and to which no circumstances can give him a just title . Oppression . 3. Slavery is the very worst form of 46 SCRIPTURE ARGUMENT.
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... belonging to one of his own children — and after he purchased me , he dressed me in this garment , took me before him on his horse , and started home ; but my poor mother , when she saw me leaving her for the last time , ran after me ...
... belonging to one of his own children — and after he purchased me , he dressed me in this garment , took me before him on his horse , and started home ; but my poor mother , when she saw me leaving her for the last time , ran after me ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 129 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.