The Planter: Or, Thirteen Years in the SouthH. Hooker, 1853 - 275 páginas |
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... heathens when their masters are Striking coincidence - White savages - If slavery makes men brutes , then our southern negroes are not slaves - Slavery has Christianized millions of heathen . CHAPTER IX . PLEASURES OF SLAVERY . 70 Not a ...
... heathens when their masters are Striking coincidence - White savages - If slavery makes men brutes , then our southern negroes are not slaves - Slavery has Christianized millions of heathen . CHAPTER IX . PLEASURES OF SLAVERY . 70 Not a ...
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... heathen ? is not a slave to lust , avarice , ambition , or fear ? No bon- dage is more grievous than that which is voluntary . " So says Seneca ; and the greater Plato , " Count no one free who is intent to indulge wicked passions ...
... heathen ? is not a slave to lust , avarice , ambition , or fear ? No bon- dage is more grievous than that which is voluntary . " So says Seneca ; and the greater Plato , " Count no one free who is intent to indulge wicked passions ...
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... heathens ? " I wish an unqualified negative could be given to that question . But I am afraid that among the country negroes , some of whom are so unfortunate as to have practically heathen masters - but not in a greater proportion than ...
... heathens ? " I wish an unqualified negative could be given to that question . But I am afraid that among the country negroes , some of whom are so unfortunate as to have practically heathen masters - but not in a greater proportion than ...
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... heathen darkness in ample abun- dance , to solve the awful problem of the frightful increase of crimes of the most abhorrent character . Indeed , crimes such as no code of penal laws ever contemplated , have already become so frequent ...
... heathen darkness in ample abun- dance , to solve the awful problem of the frightful increase of crimes of the most abhorrent character . Indeed , crimes such as no code of penal laws ever contemplated , have already become so frequent ...
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... heathen in various parts of the world . If , as we will rejoice in hoping , they are truly emancipated from the slavery of heathen idolatry and superstition , and made free indeed , it is a great and blessed work . May it go on , and ...
... heathen in various parts of the world . If , as we will rejoice in hoping , they are truly emancipated from the slavery of heathen idolatry and superstition , and made free indeed , it is a great and blessed work . May it go on , and ...
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abolition abolitionism abolitionists Africa allowed Anti-Slavery atheistic authority Baker street believe better Bible British calumny character Christian Cleon comfort condition crime cruel Cudjo death declaration destitution Doctor Drayton Island emancipation English Epistle to Philemon evil faithful Fanny Wright father favor fear free negroes frightful results George Gospel happy heart heathen hope HOST human hundred ignorant infidel institution of slavery Japheth King labor Ladies of England land learned less live Lord Lord Palmerston Mas'r master means mercy miserable Mungo Park murdered never noble northern notion pagan party perhaps plantation pleasant pleasure poor privileges Quakers race religion religious savage says scene seemed slave-trade souls South Southern slaves spirit strange suffering suppose TABLEAUX VIVANTS thing thought thousands tion true truth Uncle Uncle Tom unhappy women of England words wretched
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Página 260 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 169 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 176 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which...
Página 235 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Página 163 - Do you know how they make it? Just as a man makes laws for his dog. When your dog does anything you want to break him of, you wait till he does it, and then beat him for it. This is the way you make laws for your dog: and this is the way the judges make law for you and me.
Página 271 - 11 find me ready, — happier man am I. Cleon sees no charms in nature, in a daisy I ; Cleon hears no anthems ringing in the sea and sky ; Nature sings to me forever, earnest listener I ; State for state, with all attendants, who would change ? Not I.
Página 241 - Thank God ! not yet so vilely can Massachusetts bow ; The spirit of her early time is with her even now; Dream not because her Pilgrim blood moves slow and calm and cool, She thus can stoop her chainless neck, a sister's slave and tool!
Página 240 - A weight seemed lifted from my heart, a pitying friend was nigh, I felt it in his hard, rough hand, and saw it in his eye; .And when again the sheriff spoke, that voice, so kind to me, Growled back its stormy answer like the roaring of the sea: "Pile my ship with bars of silver — pack with coins of Spanish gold...
Página 240 - Pile my ship with bars of silver — pack with coins of Spanish gold, From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,— By the living God who made me ! I would sooner in your bay Sink ship and crew and cargo than bear this child away!
Página 162 - Truth. — I sow corn : partridges eat it, and if I attempt to defend it against the partridges, I am fined or sent to gaol : all this, for fear a great man, who is above sowing corn, should be in want of partridges.