Thoughts on African Colonization, Or, An Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society: Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color |
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... motives would be impeached , my warnings ridiculed , my person persecuted , my sanity doubted , my life jeoparded : but the clank of the prisoner's chains broke upon my ear - it entered deeply into my soul - I looked up to Heaven for ...
... motives would be impeached , my warnings ridiculed , my person persecuted , my sanity doubted , my life jeoparded : but the clank of the prisoner's chains broke upon my ear - it entered deeply into my soul - I looked up to Heaven for ...
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... motives before me to bias my judgment , that I re- solved to make a close and candid examination of the subject . I went , first of all , to the fountain head - to the African Re- pository and the Reports of the Society . I was not long ...
... motives before me to bias my judgment , that I re- solved to make a close and candid examination of the subject . I went , first of all , to the fountain head - to the African Re- pository and the Reports of the Society . I was not long ...
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... motives and unsuspicious confidence ; I resorted to many expe- dients to vindicate the disinterested benevolence of the Society ; but I could not rest . The sun in its mid - day splendor was not more clear and palpable to my vision ...
... motives and unsuspicious confidence ; I resorted to many expe- dients to vindicate the disinterested benevolence of the Society ; but I could not rest . The sun in its mid - day splendor was not more clear and palpable to my vision ...
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... motive for the measure - a terror lest the blacks should rise to avenge their accumulated wrongs . It is a conspiracy to send the free people of color to Africa under a benevolent pretence , but really that the slaves may be held more ...
... motive for the measure - a terror lest the blacks should rise to avenge their accumulated wrongs . It is a conspiracy to send the free people of color to Africa under a benevolent pretence , but really that the slaves may be held more ...
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... motives , -it ought to receive unqualified condemnation . It is proper to call things by their right names . What does the law term him who steals your pocket - book , or breaks into your dwelling , or strips you on the highway ? A ...
... motives , -it ought to receive unqualified condemnation . It is proper to call things by their right names . What does the law term him who steals your pocket - book , or breaks into your dwelling , or strips you on the highway ? A ...
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ABNER H abolition of slavery advocates Africa American Colonization Society Annual Report believe benevolent blood bondage brethren cause Chairman character christian civil coast of Africa Coloniza colonizationists colored citizens condition consent corrupt countrymen cover a base crime dangerous declares degra degraded Disosway emancipation emigrate equal evil excite existence favor fear feelings free blacks free colored population free negroes freedom freemen friends give gospel happiness honorable human ignorant improvement increase influence James Forten justice labor laws Liberator Liberia liberty manumission manumit masters means measure meeting ment millions mind moral motives mulatto nation native land nature never New-York object opinion oppression ourselves persons of color philanthropy planters prejudice present principles race remain removal Repository Resolved respect scheme Secretary sentiments shores slave trade slaveholders southern spirit system of slavery thousand tion transportation true truth United Upper Canada
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Page 19 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 97 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 64 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 116 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 153 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 5 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 13 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 97 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...
Page 159 - America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil, which their blood and sweat manured; and that any measure or system of measures, having a tendency to banish us from her bosom, would not only be cruel, but in direct violation of those principles which have been the boast of this republic...
Page 24 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?