What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: American Negro SlaveryUser Review - Zoey - GoodreadsYou have to read Phillips with an discerning mind. He is a paternalistic racist with a romanticized view of the Old South, and while that makes him unable to truly grasp the slaves' situation, it doesn't make him any less knowledgeable about plantations and how they functioned. Read full review Review: American Negro SlaveryUser Review - Michael Hattem - GoodreadsAmerican Negro Slavery is the classic historical statement of the slavery apologetics. Phillips's unrepentant racism is not only a major feature of the book, his thesis is based on it. Phillips is no ... Read full review Related books
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DuBois West William women wrote York Popular passagesPage 123 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? Page 123 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race. Page 116 - The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Page 139 - I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe. Page 315 - De pine-top fiddle soundin' to de bowin' ob de breeze. We has no ark to dance afore, like Isrul's prophet king; We has no harp to soun' de chords, to holp us out to sing; But 'cordin... Page 132 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported, after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave-trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it. Page 197 - ... all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof. Page 123 - Will not a lover of natural history then, one who views the gradations in all the races of animals with the eye of philosophy, excuse an effort to keep those in the department of man as distinct as nature has formed them? This unfortunate difference of colour, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people. Page 76 - Whereas some doubts, have arisen whether negro women set free were still to be accompted tithable according to a former act, It is declared by this grand assembly that negro women, though permitted to enjoy / their... Page 123 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarFluctuations In A Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal ...Richard H Steckel Slavery, profitability, and the market processMark Thornton - 1994 - The Review of Austrian Economics Enslaved African Rebellions in VirginiaJoyce Tang - 1997 - Journal of Black Studies Biology, Diseases, and Economics: An Epidemiological History of ...Philip RP Coelho, Robert A McGuire - 1999 - Journal of Bioeconomics References from web pagesAmerican Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and ... JSTOR: American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment ... Black Thunder's call for a conjure response to American Negro ... 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