Notes on the History of Slavery in MassachusettsD. Appleton & Company, 1866 - 256 páginas |
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aboliſhed Adams advertiſement aforefaid Africa againſt againſt ſlavery alfo alſo anſwer becauſe bill Boſton Britiſh brought cafe CALEB CUSHING caſe cauſe Chriſtian chuſetts Colony Committee confideration Conftitution Congreſs Council Court DANIEL HOPKINS decifion defire England Engliſh eſtabliſhed exiſtence faid fale fame fays fecond feffion fent fervants fhall fimilar firft firſt flave-trade flavery flaves fold fome ftatute fubject fuch furniſh Governor himſelf hiſtory Houſe Houſe of Repreſentatives Ibid Indians and Negroes inftructed intereſting Iſland itſelf John John Adams Journal legiſlation Legiſlature liberty Lord Mansfield M. H. S. Coll Maffachuſetts Mafs maſter moft moſt mulatto muſt negro flaves negroes ordered ourſelves paffed Perfon or Perfons perfons petition preſent priſoners provifion Province publiſhed puniſhment purchaſe purpoſe queſtion reaſon Records refolve refult reſpect ſaid ſays ſeem ſervice ſeveral Sewall ſhall ſhould ſlave Slaves ſome South Carolina ſtated ſtatement ſuch themſelves theſe thoſe tion town uſe veffel
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Página 251 - It is most certain that all Men, as they are the sons of Adam, are Co-heirs, and have equal Right unto Liberty, and all other outward Comforts of Life.
Página 201 - I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Página 91 - For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Página 84 - And all things considered, it would conduce more to the welfare of the province to have white servants for a term of years than to have slaves for life.
Página 176 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...
Página 155 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated...
Página 84 - Joseph was rightfully no more a slave to his brethren than they were to him ; and they had no more authority to sell him than they had to slay him. And if they had nothing to do to sell him, the Ishmaelites bargaining with them and paying down twenty pieces of silver could not make a title. Neither could Potiphar have any better interest in him than the Ishmaelites had.
Página 86 - Hull should surprise them, and sell them for Slaves to a Ship outward bound ; they would think themselves unjustly dealt with ; both by Sellers and Buyers. And yet 'tis to be feared, we have no other Kind of Title to our Nigers. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them : for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Página 77 - ... liberty to do so. To the end we shall be satisfied on this point, and satisfy likewise our good friends and acquaintances in our native country, to whom it is a terror, or fearful thing, that men should be handelled so in Pennsylvania. This is from our meeting at Germantown, held y° i8th of the 2d month, 1688, to be delivered to the monthly meeting at Richard Worrell's.
Página 121 - On the part of the blacks it was pleaded, that the royal charter expressly declared all persons, born or residing in the province, to be as free, as the king's subjects in Great Britain ; that by the laws of England no man could be deprived of his liberty but by the judgment of his peers; that the laws of the province respecting an evil existing, and attempting to mitigate or regulate it, did not authorize it...