History of the Colored Race in AmericaHeritage Books, 1887 - Počet stran: 646 |
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... receiving the highest education , of which they are truly susceptible . We find they control and own 150 newspapers , have 20,000 public schools , attended by 1,000,000 pupils . They produce now 150,000,000 pounds cereals annually , and ...
... receiving the highest education , of which they are truly susceptible . We find they control and own 150 newspapers , have 20,000 public schools , attended by 1,000,000 pupils . They produce now 150,000,000 pounds cereals annually , and ...
Strana 32
... received the white stranger and his guides with great courtesy , and not only gave him permission to traverse his dominions , but assured him that he would offer up prayers for his safety , partly to secure which , he furnished him with ...
... received the white stranger and his guides with great courtesy , and not only gave him permission to traverse his dominions , but assured him that he would offer up prayers for his safety , partly to secure which , he furnished him with ...
Strana 33
... received by the colored chief with much apparent kindness , although he had heard in his passage through the country that this same king was of a ferocious and warlike disposition . The good old chief , however , was so completely ...
... received by the colored chief with much apparent kindness , although he had heard in his passage through the country that this same king was of a ferocious and warlike disposition . The good old chief , however , was so completely ...
Strana 35
... received in- formation that the nephew of the King of Kasson , who had been sent by his uncle on an embassy to the King of Kajaaga , and was now returning to his own country , was about to pay him a visit . He came accordingly , and ...
... received in- formation that the nephew of the King of Kasson , who had been sent by his uncle on an embassy to the King of Kajaaga , and was now returning to his own country , was about to pay him a visit . He came accordingly , and ...
Strana 39
... receiving none , told us we might proceed without fear , for there was no danger . Adventures now appeared to come thick upon the party . The country through which their road lay being thickly sprinkled with wild fruit trees , they ...
... receiving none , told us we might proceed without fear , for there was no danger . Adventures now appeared to come thick upon the party . The country through which their road lay being thickly sprinkled with wild fruit trees , they ...
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CHAPTER III | 66 |
FREDERIC CAILLIAUDTHE MARCH INTO THE DESERTTHE CARAVAN | 117 |
CHAPTER VI | 132 |
CHAPTER IX | 186 |
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE SLAVERY RECOGNIZED BY THE FRENCH | 195 |
CHAPTER XII | 213 |
THE CIVIL WARCAUSES THAT PRODUCED IT THE ATTACK ON FORT | 244 |
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH GEN GRANT COMMANDS THE UNION FORCES | 259 |
BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE GRANT ORDERS AN ATTACK GALLANT | 300 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 307 |
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHIS EARLY LIFEHARDSHIP AND PRIVATIONS | 389 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 413 |
246 | 480 |
BOLD MOVEMENT BLOODY FIGHTINGHANCOCKS ATTACKGEN | 602 |
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Strana 279 - She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Strana 172 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 389 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Strana 372 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Strana 278 - In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Strana 372 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Strana 12 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Strana 173 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Strana 139 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them.
Strana 54 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
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