 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Civilization - 1868 - 706 pages
...India islands about thirty years since ; and it has been recently abolished in our Southern States, by the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. CHAPTER XXV. ON THE DIFFERENCES IN THE RACES OF MEN AND THEIR CAUSES ; AND ON THE INFLUENCES... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 840 pages
...United States were citizens of the United States. " It was because of the idea which obtained before the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, that slaves were property and not persons, that it was thought proper to embody, in the civil... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 844 pages
...United States were citizens of the United States. " It was because of the idea which obtained before the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, that slaves were property and not persons, that it was thought proper to embody, in the civil... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 842 pages
...United States were citizens of the United States. " It was because of the idea which obtained before the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, that slaves were property and not persons, that it was thought proper to embody, in the civil... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 850 pages
...United States were citizens of the United States. " It was becanse of the idea which obtained before the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, that slaves were property and not persons, that it was thought proper to embody, in the civil... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Bounties, Military - 1890 - 490 pages
...he had been a slave, belonging to the same master with herself, and living upon the same plantation. thereon by their master, as were his other slaves;...Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, December 18, 1865, and for some time thereafter. The only question presented upon this appeal... | |
 | John William Burgess - Constitutional law - 1902 - 366 pages
...weeks after the passage of the Stevens resolution hy the House of Representatives, Mr. Seward announced the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. In The ratmcamaking this announcement, he declared that there were thirty-six " States " in... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control - Budget - 1903 - 1150 pages
...decisions are in accordance with the ruling of the House of Representatives at Washington in 1865 upon the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. MINORITY REPORTS. In most legislative bodies the majority of a committee control the reports,... | |
 | William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - History - 1905 - 640 pages
...have aided. As a matter of fact, an effort was made later to abolish slavery in that State, before the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. A political convention of the Union men met at Nashville, and resolved itself into a Constitutional... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1905 - 762 pages
...have aided. As a matter of fact, an effort was made later to abolish slavery in that State, before the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. A political convention of the Union men met at Nashville, and resolved itself into a Constitutional... | |
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