American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation RegimeD. Appleton, 1918 - 529 páginas |
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... Georgia issued in 1772 a certificate to a certain Fenda Lawrence reciting that she , " a free black woman and heretofore a considerable trader in the river Gambia on the coast of Africa , hath voluntarily come to be and remain for some ...
... Georgia issued in 1772 a certificate to a certain Fenda Lawrence reciting that she , " a free black woman and heretofore a considerable trader in the river Gambia on the coast of Africa , hath voluntarily come to be and remain for some ...
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... Georgia , had in 1771 eleven plantations on the Savannah , Ogeechee and Canoochee Rivers , employing from 33 to 72 slaves each , the great majority of whom were working hands . At the middle of the nineteenth century the single ...
... Georgia , had in 1771 eleven plantations on the Savannah , Ogeechee and Canoochee Rivers , employing from 33 to 72 slaves each , the great majority of whom were working hands . At the middle of the nineteenth century the single ...
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... Georgia . The launching of this colony was the beginning of modern philan- thropy . Upon procuring a charter in 1732 constituting them trustees of Georgia , James Oglethorpe and his colleagues began to raise funds from private donations ...
... Georgia . The launching of this colony was the beginning of modern philan- thropy . Upon procuring a charter in 1732 constituting them trustees of Georgia , James Oglethorpe and his colleagues began to raise funds from private donations ...
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... Georgia to the status on the one hand of a self - governing royal province and on the other of a plantation community prospering , modestly for the time being , in the production of rice and indigo . Her peculiari- ties under the ...
... Georgia to the status on the one hand of a self - governing royal province and on the other of a plantation community prospering , modestly for the time being , in the production of rice and indigo . Her peculiari- ties under the ...
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... Georgia in that census have been lost . Were those for her coastal area available they would surely show a similar tendency toward slaveholding concentra- tion . Avenues of transportation abundantly penetrated the whole district in the ...
... Georgia in that census have been lost . Were those for her coastal area available they would surely show a similar tendency toward slaveholding concentra- tion . Avenues of transportation abundantly penetrated the whole district in the ...
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American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of ... Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Vista previa limitada - 1966 |
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.