Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa
... slave code of 1754 stipulated that if 'a slave or slave woman should go so far as to lift his or her hands at his or her master or mistress ... he or she is to be punished with death without mercy'.143 But in colonial South Africa ...
Runaway Slaves
... ( slave ) , 67 Morris , Gilbert , 26 Morton , James , 165 Morville Plantation , 234-35 , 239 Moseley , Benjamin F. , 105 Moseley , Mason , 84-85 Moses ( slave , Bon Ridge Plantation , La . ) , 76 Moses ( slave , N.C. ) , 55 Moses ...
Slave-conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860
... slave and free negroes found few moral and spiritual opportunities . In his admirable study of slave conversion up to 1800 , Professor Marcus W. Jernegan reaches the con- clusion that colonial efforts at conversion had been intermittent ...
From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves
... slaves assumed responsibility for their own maintenance . The labour systems which emerged constituted alternative forms of surplus appropria- tion for the slave - owners in which labour obligations were converted into cash payments in ...
Conquerors and Slaves
... slave - owning societies , in which a small pro- portion of men and women were kept as slaves . The Human Relations Area Files record the presence of some slaves in nearly half out of 800 societies studied . But sacrificial slavery ...
Acts of the Anti-slavery Apostles
... slavery give of itself , " Peculiar Institution " it was often called . But it was not pecul- iar to the southern states . Fortunes were made by the African slave trade , even in little Rhode Island . The history of slavery and slave ...
The State Records of North Carolina
... slave , 22. 626 , 627 . Sullivan's Island , 10. 6184-618c . transfers N. C. troops to S. C. and Ga . battalions , 11. 362 , 409 . : . Lee , Cole , ( Caty ) , slave , 22. 626 , 627. Lee , Hopkins , land grant to , 4. 704 . Lee ...
Lincoln. Winthrop. Hamlin. Cavour. Clarke. Morrill. Montalembert. Parker. Clay. Toombs. Bright. Phillips. Blanche. Benjamin
... slavery destroy freedom ? It looks very much like it . Here are nine great steps , openly taken since '87 , in favor of slavery . First , America put slavery into the consti- tution . Second , out of old soil she made four new slave ...
Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility
... slave adventures . have hereinbefore been declared unlawful , then and in every such case the persons so offending ... slave or slaves , or for the purpose of his , her or their being imported or brought as a slave or slaves , into ...
A Short History of the American People
... slave - holding region . Were the states formed from it to be slave or free ? Its first state was Louisiana in the extreme south , and that was admitted with slavery . Its next Missouri , far to the north , had been settled chiefly by ...
English Society in the Eighteenth Century as Influenced from Oversea
... Slave Trade , I , pp . 112-116 . * Ibid , An Essay on the Slavery , etc. , p . 26 . Wesley , J. , Thoughts on Slavery . Th 23 Geo . II . c . 31. See also Edwards , II , p . 251 , and Letter of Walpole to Sir Horace Mann , 25 Feb. , 1750 ...
The United States
... slaves from the territories . But great inconsistency was shown by the Southerners when the Missouri Compromise was adopted . Missouri was admitted as a slave State , but the limits of slave territory were designated as latitude 36 ° 30 ...
American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopedia Britannica
... SLAVE - TRADE BY GREAT BRITAIN . " The Society for the Suppression of the Slave - trade , " founded in England by Clarkson , Wilberforce , and Dillwyn , 1787 . Slave - trade question debated in British Parliament ( 1787 ) . The debate ...
“The” Quarterly Review
... slave - hunting , and in 1860 the scandal became so great , that the Europeans had to get rid of their stations by selling them to their Arab agents , who paid a rental for them to the Egyptian Government . The system under which the ...
McEvoy Magazine
VII . STEPS IN THE GROWTH OF SLAVERY . Wherever the slavery question arose , the annexation of new land was ... slave state . The Missouri Compromise bill , a law proposed by Henry Clay , set- tled the matter . It stated : ( a ) ...
Annual Report
... Slave River 134 Slave River 135 W. M. Andrews Slave River 555555 5 136 | " Slave River 5 137 G. S. Hubbell Slave River 5 138 Slave River 5 139 W. Hubbell Slave River 5 140 Slave River 141 John F. Haskell Slave River 142 Slave River 555 ...
Journal of the African Society
... slave trade , unless we occupied the coast . That was the beginning of our possession of what is now known as ... slave raids ; and the reason why by conquest we finally added the northern territory to the British Empire was ...
Miscellanies
... slave - grown tobacco and slave - grown cotton , till the government be- gan to affect scruples about admitting slave - grown sugar . Of course , as soon as our Ministers ostentatiously an- nounced to all the world that our fiscal ...
Gesta Christ, Or, A History of Humane Progress Under Christianity
... slave trade ( in 1776 ) was based on religious grounds : " that the slave trade is contrary to the laws of God and the rights of man . " Previously to this , the Quakers , through George Fox , had made the following protest against the ...
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
Drawing on the virtual explosion of empirical research and theoretical discussion of the subject over the past thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom and illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays ...