A Visit to the United States in 1841Cosimo, Inc., 1 Ιαν 2005 - 328 σελίδες For obvious reasons, the abolition of slavery in the United States is the most prominent topic in my narrative; but I have freely interspersed observations on other subjects of interest and importance, as they came under consideration....-from the PrefaceAll but forgotten in antislavery history of the United States, this powerful testimonial, by a British visitor to American shores, offers an intimate look through an outsider's eye at the South's peculiar institution. Sturges, a British Quaker and activist, draws brief portraits of prominent American abolitionists and, unlike many similar contemporary works, does not ignore the contributions of women as social reformers in pre-Civil War American society. Whether it's relating the tale of a runaway slave and her baby sold back into slavery or addressing the everyday indignities suffered by even free black Americans, this 1842 work seethes with the passion and indignation that would eventually see the end of slavery in the United States.British philanthropist and abolitionist JOSEPH STURGE (1793-1859) also wrote The West Indies in 1837, an account of slavery in the islands. |
Περιεχόμενα
Ενότητα 15 | 165 |
Ενότητα 16 | 170 |
Ενότητα 17 | 191 |
Ενότητα 18 | 192 |
Ενότητα 19 | i |
Ενότητα 20 | ii |
Ενότητα 21 | lii |
Ενότητα 22 | lxvi |
Ενότητα 9 | 83 |
Ενότητα 10 | 126 |
Ενότητα 11 | 129 |
Ενότητα 12 | 130 |
Ενότητα 13 | 155 |
Ενότητα 14 | 159 |
Ενότητα 23 | xc |
Ενότητα 24 | cxviii |
Ενότητα 25 | cxxi |
Ενότητα 26 | cxxiii |
Ενότητα 27 | cxxiv |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
abolition of slavery abolitionism abolitionists Africans American Anti-slavery Society Amistad ANTHONY BENEZET anti-slavery cause ARTHUR TAPPAN attended believe benevolent Boston brethren Britain British and Foreign called character Chinese christian church CINQUE citizens coloured committee Convention corn law cotton dollars duty ELISHA TYSON emancipation England evil favour feeling Foreign Anti-slavery Society GERRIT SMITH give hand hired human hundred influence informed interest JOHN JOHN WOOLMAN JOSEPH STURGE labour land large number late letter LEWIS TAPPAN liberty Maryland master Meeting for Sufferings Mendi Mendians ment Month moral nations negroes object opium oppressed party peace persons Philadelphia population present President principles prisoners pro-slavery proceedings received respect SAMUEL WEBB sentiments servants slave slave-holders slave-trade Society of Friends spirit suffering testimony thee things thou thousand tion told trade United whole Yearly Meeting York
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 21 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Σελίδα lxxviii - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Σελίδα lxxviii - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Σελίδα lxxx - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Σελίδα 120 - That, so long as Slavery exists, there is no reasonable prospect of the annihilation of the Slave-trade, and of extinguishing the sale and barter of human beings ; that the extinction of Slavery and the Slave-trade will be attained most effectually by the employment of those means which are of a moral, religious, and pacific fharacter ; and that no measures be resorted to by this Society, in the prosecution of these objects, but such as are in entire accordance with these principles.
Σελίδα lxxx - He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
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