Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on American Slavery |
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... notice , and by no means all that might be presented upon it . The author hopes this little book may not prove an unacceptable vade mecum , to all the friends of the Anti- Slavery cause , and especially to Anti - Slavery Agents , and ...
... notice , and by no means all that might be presented upon it . The author hopes this little book may not prove an unacceptable vade mecum , to all the friends of the Anti- Slavery cause , and especially to Anti - Slavery Agents , and ...
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... notice of it to be published during forty days by adver- tisment posted at the door of the court house , and if at the expiration of this delay , no opposition be made , he shall authorize the master to pass the act of emancipa- tion ...
... notice of it to be published during forty days by adver- tisment posted at the door of the court house , and if at the expiration of this delay , no opposition be made , he shall authorize the master to pass the act of emancipa- tion ...
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... notice . What effect is likely to be produced on the mo- rals of the whites , from having about them , and under their absolute authority , female slaves who are deprived of the strongest motives to purity , and exposed to pecu- liar ...
... notice . What effect is likely to be produced on the mo- rals of the whites , from having about them , and under their absolute authority , female slaves who are deprived of the strongest motives to purity , and exposed to pecu- liar ...
Page 59
... notice being given him as aforesaid : -otherwise the assistant shall exclude him from the society . And again , another rule declared that : Those who bought or sold SLAVES , or gave them away , unless on purpose to free them , should ...
... notice being given him as aforesaid : -otherwise the assistant shall exclude him from the society . And again , another rule declared that : Those who bought or sold SLAVES , or gave them away , unless on purpose to free them , should ...
Page 74
... notice was taken of it by the civil authorities ; but in this they were consistent , for the city patrols or night watch are allowed to do the same thing with im- punity , though it is authorized by no law . Another mode of capturing ...
... notice was taken of it by the civil authorities ; but in this they were consistent , for the city patrols or night watch are allowed to do the same thing with im- punity , though it is authorized by no law . Another mode of capturing ...
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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.