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... COLONIES V. THE RICE COAST . VI . THE NORTHERN COLONIES VII . REVOLUTION AND REACTION WIII . THE CLOSING OF THE AFRICAN SLave Trade A IX . THE INTRODUCTION of Cotton and Sugar X. THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT XI . THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE XII ...
... COLONIES V. THE RICE COAST . VI . THE NORTHERN COLONIES VII . REVOLUTION AND REACTION WIII . THE CLOSING OF THE AFRICAN SLave Trade A IX . THE INTRODUCTION of Cotton and Sugar X. THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT XI . THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE XII ...
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... found squalid villages of Caribs and Lu- cayans . Of gold there was little , of spices none . Columbus , when planting his colony at Isabella , on the north- " ern coast of Hispaniola ( Hayti ) , promptly found THE EXPLOITATION OF GUINEA ...
... found squalid villages of Caribs and Lu- cayans . Of gold there was little , of spices none . Columbus , when planting his colony at Isabella , on the north- " ern coast of Hispaniola ( Hayti ) , promptly found THE EXPLOITATION OF GUINEA ...
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... colonies free from all influences hostile to Catholic orthodoxy . But whereas Jews , Mohammedans and Christian heretics were considered as cham- pions of rival faiths , the pagan blacks came increasingly to be reckoned as having no ...
... colonies free from all influences hostile to Catholic orthodoxy . But whereas Jews , Mohammedans and Christian heretics were considered as cham- pions of rival faiths , the pagan blacks came increasingly to be reckoned as having no ...
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... colonies of virtually all their more vigorous white inhabitants , in spite of severe penalties legally imposed upon emigration but never effectively enforced . The agricultural régime in the islands was accordingly kept relatively ...
... colonies of virtually all their more vigorous white inhabitants , in spite of severe penalties legally imposed upon emigration but never effectively enforced . The agricultural régime in the islands was accordingly kept relatively ...
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... colonies which were then virtually the world's only slave market . The test of this was made by Sir John Hawkins who at the beginning of his career as a great English sea captain had informed himself in the Canary Islands of the Afro ...
... colonies which were then virtually the world's only slave market . The test of this was made by Sir John Hawkins who at the beginning of his career as a great English sea captain had informed himself in the Canary Islands of the Afro ...
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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 117 - I do hereby further declare all indented servants, negroes, or others, (appertaining to rebels,) free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining his Majesty's troops, as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper sense of their duty to his Majesty's crown and dignity.
Page 116 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
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.
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 264 into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Page 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 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 307 - ... a frolic at night. He did not think they ever did half a fair day's work. They could not be made to work hard : they never would lay out their strength freely, and it was impossible to make them do it. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work — they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them.
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 123 - What further is to be done with them?" join themselves in opposition with those who are actuated by sordid avarice only. Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture.