Prison SlaveryAbolish Prison Slavery, 1982 - 225 páginas |
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Página 125
... Molly Maguires . " These " Molly Maguires " were noth- ing but the product of the financier's gifted imagination.24 After six years of unrelenting war on the miners , Gowen proved his conviction that " it was sufficient to hang a man to ...
... Molly Maguires . " These " Molly Maguires " were noth- ing but the product of the financier's gifted imagination.24 After six years of unrelenting war on the miners , Gowen proved his conviction that " it was sufficient to hang a man to ...
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... Molly Maguires - although any militant miner might have been call- ed a Molly Maguire after the newspapers had spread Gowen's charge far and wide . But the Molly Maguires in fact were nothing but a fabrication of Reading Valley's ...
... Molly Maguires - although any militant miner might have been call- ed a Molly Maguire after the newspapers had spread Gowen's charge far and wide . But the Molly Maguires in fact were nothing but a fabrication of Reading Valley's ...
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... Molly Maguires were hanged for their insistence on justice ; W.E.B. DuBois urged his people on to freedom ; Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. , George Jackson and un- mentioned others have left a legacy and example for us to carry for- ward ...
... Molly Maguires were hanged for their insistence on justice ; W.E.B. DuBois urged his people on to freedom ; Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. , George Jackson and un- mentioned others have left a legacy and example for us to carry for- ward ...
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Abolish Prison Slavery abolition abolitionist abolitionist movement American Article Attica Beccaria bondage brutality century chattel slavery citizens citizenship civil colonies Committee convict lease court CRIME WHEREOF criminal death denied DuBois DULY CONVICTED emancipation enforce equal exploitation federal forced Frederick Douglass freedom human rights Ibid imprisonment indentured servants industry inmates institution involuntary servitude jail John John Woolman Justice labor rights lease system legislation legislature Maryland masters ment Missouri Molly Maguires murder National Negro North Northwest Territory Ohio oppression Ordinance penal peonage percent person petition plantation political poor practice prison slavery profit prohibited protection punishment for crime Quakers reported Section Sellin Senate slave trade slaveholding slavemaster slavery and involuntary slavery nor involuntary slavery's society South Carolina struggle Sumner Territory Texas Thirteenth Amendment tion Union United victims Virginia vitude vote W.E.B. DuBois wages WHEREOF THE PARTY women Woolman workers York
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Página 30 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 35 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 22 - What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...
Página 30 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Página 31 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Página 83 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 83 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 208 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Página 217 - That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and that all children born within the said State after the admission thereof into the Union shall be free, but may be held to service until the age of twenty-five years.
Página 63 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.