The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African DescentJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1914 - 284 من الصفحات |
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9th U. S. Cavalry A. M. E. Church A. M. E. Zion Absalom Jones African Alexander Crummell American Negro anti-slavery Banneker Baptist Church became Benjamin Blyden Booker Boston Bruce career Chapin's Farm citizens Civil colonies colored youth Congress Constitution Convention Covey Crummell Cuffè death delegates Denmark Vesey dollars elected Elliott eloquence Emancipation emigration England Episcopal Church Frederick Douglass Freedmen's friends Garnet Garrison George Hampton held Henry Henry Highland Garnet History honor hundred James John labor land Langston Liberia Lincoln literary Maryland ment movement Nat Turner National North officers Ohio orator organized Philadelphia Phillis Phillis Wheatley President pupils race received regiments Republican Senate Sierra Leone slave slavery Society Sojourner Truth South Carolina teachers Thomas tion Troop Tuskegee United Virginia visited Washington West Wheatley Wilberforce University William William Lloyd Garrison William Whipper York
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الصفحة 78 - Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die.
الصفحة 185 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
الصفحة 94 - I can add with truth, that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both of their body and mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances which cannot be neglected, will admit.
الصفحة 94 - I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society, because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them.
الصفحة 83 - 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.
الصفحة 112 - Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
الصفحة 93 - This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced stage of life; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein, through my own assiduous application to Astronomical Study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages which I have had to encounter.
الصفحة 91 - feel gratified in the opportunity of presenting to the public, through their press, what must be considered as an extraordinary effort of genius — a complete and accurate Ephemeris for the year 1792, calculated by a sable descendant of Africa.
الصفحة 94 - Nobody wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men; and that the appearance of the want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
الصفحة 56 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.