 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 páginas
...banditti instead of turning their attention to industry and labor." George Washington agreed: "To set them afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief."59 For these reasons, it was feared that black citizenship would harm the rest of the community.... | |
 | Don Higginbotham - 2001 - 356 páginas
...generally into the minds of the people of this country, but I dispair of seeing it. ... To set them afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience & mischief; but by degrees it certainly might, & assuredly ought to be effected & that too by Legislative... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 2006 - 499 páginas
...United States. "But I despair of seeing it." And yet, Washington concluded, "to set the slaves at float at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief." He had decided that slaves should be freed only by degrees and then only by the act of a state legislature.... | |
 | Brandon Marie Miller - 2007 - 147 páginas
...country, but I despair of seeing it-some petitions were presented to the Assembly at its last Sessions, for the abolition of slavery, but they could scarcely obtain a reading." So why didn't Washington free his own slaves earlier? Why did he wrestle with the issue for so long?... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1848 - 970 páginas
...itself generally into the minds of the • people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. * * * To set the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much mischief and inconvenience ; but by degrees it might, and assuredly ought to be effected ; and that,... | |
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Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally, into the minds of the people of this country. But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions... 
