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The White Slave: Another Picture of Slave Life in America (Classic Reprint) Richard Hildreth No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 178 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Page 233 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.
Page 190 - ... minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year...
Page 178 - In. Bonds v. Tennessee (1827), Martin & Yerger, 142, the accused was convicted of the crime of murder, and upon being led to the bar and asked by the court if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced against him...
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Page 164 - Let us declare, through the public journals of our country, that the question of Slavery is not, and shall not be open to discussion — that the system is deep rooted among us, and MUST REMAIN FOREVER : that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be cut out and cast upon a dunghill.
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