Slavery in America: With Notices of the Present State of Slavery and the Slave Trade Throughout the World, Edições 1-14G. Wightman, 1837 - 320 páginas |
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... common advantages of society . It is piracy to buy or steal a native African , and subject him to servitude . Surely the sin is as great to en- slave an American as an African . Therefore we believe and affirm ― That there is no ...
... common advantages of society . It is piracy to buy or steal a native African , and subject him to servitude . Surely the sin is as great to en- slave an American as an African . Therefore we believe and affirm ― That there is no ...
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... common freedom and a com- mon Christianity ; bolding in admiration the amount of Christian liberality and Christian ... common origin , having become partakers in a common guilt , the objects of a common redemption , we sincerely lament ...
... common freedom and a com- mon Christianity ; bolding in admiration the amount of Christian liberality and Christian ... common origin , having become partakers in a common guilt , the objects of a common redemption , we sincerely lament ...
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... common characters of fellow - sinners and fellow- saints . 6. That we cannot adopt , as the principle of our conduct , the spirit of the first mur- derer , " Am I my brother's keeper ? " - but in the better spirit of that religion which ...
... common characters of fellow - sinners and fellow- saints . 6. That we cannot adopt , as the principle of our conduct , the spirit of the first mur- derer , " Am I my brother's keeper ? " - but in the better spirit of that religion which ...
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... common Lord and in the spirit of our common faith , call upon them most se riously to consider the subject , and to make every possible exertion to remove these de- plorable evils ; and thus to shake off an in- cumbrance which oppresses ...
... common Lord and in the spirit of our common faith , call upon them most se riously to consider the subject , and to make every possible exertion to remove these de- plorable evils ; and thus to shake off an in- cumbrance which oppresses ...
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... common with many of our brethren in various parts of the kingdom , we regard American Slavery as existing in the churches of our denomination with feel- ings of the deepest abhorrence , and consider the iniquitous traffic of man in his ...
... common with many of our brethren in various parts of the kingdom , we regard American Slavery as existing in the churches of our denomination with feel- ings of the deepest abhorrence , and consider the iniquitous traffic of man in his ...
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Página 196 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 282 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Página 70 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 84 - If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion toward his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. 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 the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious...
Página 224 - When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless, a God of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or, at length, by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality.
Página 21 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Página 29 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Página 224 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.