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Patrick Henry (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
life. Virginia with soil and temperature and mineral wealth inviting free and skilled labor, yet with lowland where the negro attained his perfect physical development, stood as mediator between the two. Many of her statesmen—George Mason, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Wythe, Pendleton, Richard Henry Lee—emulated each other in their confession of the iniquity and inexpediency of holding men in bondage. We have seen the legislature of colonial Virginia in 1772, in their fruitless battle 1772. with the king respecting the slave-trade, of which he was the great champion, demand its abolition as needful for their happiness and their very existence. In January, 1773, Patrick Henry threw ridicule and con- 1773. tempt on the clergy of Virginia for their opposition to emancipation. In that same year, George Mason, demanding improvements in the constitution of the Old Dominion, addressed to its legislature these memorable words: Mean and sordid, but extremely short-sighted and fooli
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
Chap. XVII.} 1779. bondage with the principle of American independence lay in the thoughts of those who led public opinion; voices against it had come from Essex, from Worcester, from Boston, from the western counties, showing that the conscience of the people was offended by its continuance. The first act of the constituent body was the consideration of a declaration of rights; and then they resolved unanimously that the government to be framed by this convention for the people of Massachusetts Bay shall be a free republic. This resolution was deemed so important, that liberty was reserved for the members of a committee who were absent to record their votes upon it; and on the next morning they declared their full and free assent. A committee of thirty, composed for the commonwealth at large and for each county excepting the unrepresented county of Dukes and Nantucket, was appointed to prepare a declaration of rights and the form of a constitution. But the house itself continu
South River, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
of Nova Scotia as indispensable to their safety, and therefore to be secured at the pacification with England. The leader in this policy was Samuel Adams, whom the French minister always found in his way. The question of recruiting the army by the enlistment of black men forced itself on attention. The several states employed them as they pleased, and the slave was enfranchised by the service. Once congress touched on the delicate subject; and in March, 1779, it recommended Georgia and South Carolina to raise three thousand active, able-bodied Chap. XVII.} 1779. negro men under thirty-five years of age; and the recommendation was coupled with a promise of a full compensation to the proprietors of such negroes for the property. The resolution appears to have been adopted without opposition, North and South Carolina having both been represented in the committee that reported it. But South Carolina refused by great majorities to give effect to the scheme. So long as Jefferson
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ifference of skin set a visible mark on the victims of commercial avarice, and strengthened the ties of selfishness by the pride of race. Yet at that time the United States, as a nation, wished treaties of the most perfect friendship and commerce with the emperor of Morocco. In England Edmund Burke seemed to be singled out to leay Americans, having the outlet of the river St. Lawrence on the one side and that of the Mississippi on the other, would be in a condition to domineer over the United States and over Spain, or to make themselves independent,—that on this point there was, therefore, a common interest. Some dread of the relative increase of the soute other a state religion subordinate to Chap. XVII.} 1780. temporal power; the one education of all the people, the other indifference to human culture. It remains to be related, that in the year 1780 the methodists of the United States at their general meeting voted slave-keeping contrary to the laws of God, man, and nature.
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
e-trade and of slavery by Jefferson in his draft of the declaration of independence was rejected by the congress of 1776 1776. in deference to South Carolina and Georgia. A few days later, in the earliest debates on the plan of confederation, the antagonism between the northern and southern states, founded on climate, pursuits,s employed them as they pleased, and the slave was enfranchised by the service. Once congress touched on the delicate subject; and in March, 1779, it recommended Georgia and South Carolina to raise three thousand active, able-bodied Chap. XVII.} 1779. negro men under thirty-five years of age; and the recommendation was coupled wenteenth of June, 1779, a renunciation of the power to engage in the slave-trade was proposed as an article to be inserted in the treaty of peace, all the states, Georgia alone being absent, refused the concession by the votes of every member except Jay and Gerry. The rigid assertion of the sovereignty of each state 1780. foste
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
erson was in congress he kept Virginia and Massachusetts in a close and unselfish union, of which tas no distinction between north and south. Massachusetts expressed itself as absolutely as South Causand, differing little from the number in Massachusetts, and being in proportion to the whole popuvelation. Moore's History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 177. In January, 1777, seven-negro slavesaution which now marked the proceedings of Massachusetts. In February, 1779, the 1779. legislaturas the act by which slavery fell away from Massachusetts. Its people wrought with the power of nat being or to destroy. The manner in which Massachusetts left slavery behind, as of the dead and irhen by its all-persuasive force the men of Massachusetts abolished slavery, the decision had the chg in of the twenty-fifth of October, 1780, Massachusetts became in truth a free common-wealth. Itsinistry, simultaneously with the people of Massachusetts, engaged in forming its model. The part o[8 more...]
Dukes County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ion of rights; and then they resolved unanimously that the government to be framed by this convention for the people of Massachusetts Bay shall be a free republic. This resolution was deemed so important, that liberty was reserved for the members of a committee who were absent to record their votes upon it; and on the next morning they declared their full and free assent. A committee of thirty, composed for the commonwealth at large and for each county excepting the unrepresented county of Dukes and Nantucket, was appointed to prepare a declaration of rights and the form of a constitution. But the house itself continued its free conversation on these subjects till sunset of the sixth of September. The next day it adjourned for more than seven weeks, that its committee might have time to transact the important business assigned them. On the thirteenth of September, the committee assembled at the new court-house in Boston. Among them were Bowdoin, who was president of the conven
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
dge the power of its legislature over slavery, even to its total abolition. In no one constitution did the word slave or slavery find a place, except in that of Delaware, and there only by way of a formal and perpetual prohibition. They are found as little in that of South Carolina (which was already the leading champion of negr proceed to emancipation by general statute of the state; that, if she refused to do so, each individual should act for his own household. Next in order comes Delaware, which on the twentieth of September, 1776, adopted its constitution as 1776. an independent state. In proportion to its numbers, it had excelled all in the voslave from Africa, or any slave for sale from any part of the world, as an article which ought never to be violated on any pretence whatever. But, beyond this, Delaware left the progress Chap. XVII.} 1779. of emancipation to the good — will of the slave-holders. In the constituent convention of New York, Gouverneur Morris st
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
slaves had rights. Laws on marriage and against adultery were applied to them; and they were allowed, like others, to give their testimony even in capital cases. Chap. XVII.} 1777. At the opening of the revolution, William Gordon, the congregationalist minister of Roxbury, though he declined to unsaint every man who still yielded to the prevailing prejudice, declared with others against perpetuating slavery, and in November, 1776, published in the Independent Chronicle a plan sent from Connecticut for its gradual extermination out of that colony. In the same month and in the same newspaper, a son of liberty demanded the repeal of all laws supporting slavery, because they were contrary to sound reason and revelation. Moore's History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 177. In January, 1777, seven-negro slaves joined in petitioning the general court that they might be restored to that freedom which is the natural right of all men, and that their children might not be held as slaves afte
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
ge. Their forefathers, in their zeal against the Roman superstition, had carried their reverence of the Bible even to idolatry; and some of them, like Luther, found in its letter a sanction for holding slaves. On the other hand, from principle and habit, they honored honest labor in all its forms. The inconsistencies of Chap. XVII.} 1779. bondage with the principle of American independence lay in the thoughts of those who led public opinion; voices against it had come from Essex, from Worcester, from Boston, from the western counties, showing that the conscience of the people was offended by its continuance. The first act of the constituent body was the consideration of a declaration of rights; and then they resolved unanimously that the government to be framed by this convention for the people of Massachusetts Bay shall be a free republic. This resolution was deemed so important, that liberty was reserved for the members of a committee who were absent to record their votes u
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