An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this Subject |
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... negro was a man , he must be included ? We think not . No exception was made to him , and his situation was fully understood by the man who wrote these words , and by the people who adopted them as their own ; and the only cause why the ...
... negro was a man , he must be included ? We think not . No exception was made to him , and his situation was fully understood by the man who wrote these words , and by the people who adopted them as their own ; and the only cause why the ...
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... negro , or the slave , whether white or black , should bring his cause into a State court , and that court decide he can be held in servitude against his consent , without crime , and punished also for no crime , then may he not appeal ...
... negro , or the slave , whether white or black , should bring his cause into a State court , and that court decide he can be held in servitude against his consent , without crime , and punished also for no crime , then may he not appeal ...
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... negro has never been a prisoner of war to this country , neither is he considered its enemy . But , after all , has the Christian American citizen no better model for his conduct and his mode of gov- ernment than pagan Greece and Rome ...
... negro has never been a prisoner of war to this country , neither is he considered its enemy . But , after all , has the Christian American citizen no better model for his conduct and his mode of gov- ernment than pagan Greece and Rome ...
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... negro . " While England has been just , and has found , in her justice , she has not mistaken her true policy , may not Americans be so also ? and , as the same author observes , " A ship of one Thomas Keyson and one James , Smith , the ...
... negro . " While England has been just , and has found , in her justice , she has not mistaken her true policy , may not Americans be so also ? and , as the same author observes , " A ship of one Thomas Keyson and one James , Smith , the ...
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... negro , the laws were less tolerant . The statute which declares who were slaves followed 1 Bancroft's History of the United States , vol . i . p . 191 . the old idea long prevalent through Christendom : All persons FIRST SETTLERS OF ...
... negro , the laws were less tolerant . The statute which declares who were slaves followed 1 Bancroft's History of the United States , vol . i . p . 191 . the old idea long prevalent through Christendom : All persons FIRST SETTLERS OF ...
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