Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with Some Account of the Annual MeetingIsaac Knapp, 1836 |
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Seite 37 - ... but to church censure, for acting in obedience to their masters, who cannot be expected to- acquiesce in a regulation at variance with justice to the slaves, and to the spirit of that command which regulates marriage among Christians. The slaves are not free agents, and a dissolution by death is not more entirely without their consent, and beyond their control, than by such separation.
Seite 50 - Every thing that tends to disturb the relations created by this compact is at war with its spirit; and whatever, by direct and necessary operation, is calculated to excite an insurrection among the slaves, has been held, by highly respectable legal authority, an offence against the peace of the commonwealth, which may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor at common law.
Seite 65 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Seite 50 - Commonwealth, which, may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor at common law. Although opinions may differ on this point, it would seem the safer course, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, to imitate the example of our fathers — the Adamses, the Hancocks, and other eminent patriots of the Revolution, who, although fresh from the battles of liberty, and approaching the question as essentially an open one, deemed it nevertheless expedient to enter into a union with our brothers of the slaveholding...
Seite 48 - I won't work in the shop if you do.' Here he is scourged by prejudice, and has to go back, and sink down to some of the employments which white men leave for the most degraded. He hears of the death of a child, from home, and he goes in a stage or a steamboat.
Seite 48 - I have felt this. As a minister, I have been called to pass often up and down the North River in steamboats. Many a night have I walked the deck, and not been allowed to lie down in a bed.
Seite 64 - If slavery be a sin, and advertising and apprehending slaves, with a view to restore them to their masters, is a direct violation of the Divine law; and if the buying, selling, or holding a slave, for the sake of gain, is a heinous sin and scandal; then, verily, three-fourths of all the Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, in eleven States of the Union, are of the devil. They 'hold,' if they do not buy and sell slaves, and, with few exceptions, they hesitate not to 'apprehend and...
Seite 48 - The colored parent, with the same soul as a white parent, sends his child to the seats of learning, and he finds the door bolted, and sits down to weep beside his boy. Prejudice stands at the door and bars him out. Does the child of the colored man show a talent for mechanics ? The heart of the parent beats with hope. He sees the children of the white man engaged in employment, and he trusts there is a door open for his boy to get an honest living, and become a useful member of society. But when...
Seite 51 - The patriotism of all classes," wrote Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, in a message to his legislature, "the patriotism of all classes must be invoked to abstain from discussion, which, by exasperating the master, can have no other effect than to render more oppressive the condition of the slave.
Seite 37 - That such separation among persons situated as our slaves are, is civilly a separation by death, and they believe, that, in the sight of God, it would be so viewed.