The Freedmen's BookTicknor and Fields, 1866 - African Americans |
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Abbé Raynal Africa Andy became better blessed Bonaparte Boston brought cabin called Captain Captain Thomas Auld carried Clerc Colonel colored Crafts cruel Domingo Ellen Ellen Crafts emancipation eyes father feel France FRANCES E. W. HARPER Freddy Frederick Frederick Douglass freedom French gave gentleman grandmother Haley hands happy heard heart horse hundred Ignatius Sancho intelligence island James Forten kind knew laborers land learned liberty lived look Madison Washington MARIA CHILD Mas'r massa Missis mistress morning mother mulattoes negroes never nigger night oppressed Phillis PHILLIS WHEATLEY plantation planters poor prayer Ratie replied respect sent sing slave-trader slaveholders Slavery slaves sold song soon soul talk tell things thou thought thousand tion told took Toussaint l'Ouverture troops wanted wife William William Lloyd Garrison women wrote young
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Page 123 - HAIL to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son ! Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun ! He comes to break oppression, To set the captive free ; To take away transgression, And rule in equity.
Page 123 - Him shall prayer unceasing And daily vows ascend, His kingdom still increasing, A kingdom without end.
Page 90 - Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song, Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, Whence flow these wishes for the common good, By feeling hearts alone best understood, I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate Was snatch'd from Afric's fancy'd happy seat: What pangs excruciating must molest, What sorrows labour in my parent's breast?
Page 19 - ... to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of His equal and impartial distribution of...
Page 91 - I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant lines you enclosed ; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents ; in honor of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem, had I not been apprehensive, that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity.
Page 91 - ... of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem had I not been apprehensive that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity. This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints.
Page 178 - And grant, O Father, that the time Of Earth's deliverance may be near, When every land and tongue and clime The message of thy love shall hear...
Page 154 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.
Page 93 - ... acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully...