Prison SlaveryAbolish Prison Slavery, 1982 - 225 páginas |
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Página 4
... protection before the law " are upheld by government when in reality they are not . When the law does not consider the economic inequalities among its people in judging them , there can be no equal opportunity and equal protection ...
... protection before the law " are upheld by government when in reality they are not . When the law does not consider the economic inequalities among its people in judging them , there can be no equal opportunity and equal protection ...
Página 5
... protection before the law , and unequal political representation for the needy by a government more favorable to the well - financed representation of the rich and the privileged . Increasing- ly fewer avenues for relief are available ...
... protection before the law , and unequal political representation for the needy by a government more favorable to the well - financed representation of the rich and the privileged . Increasing- ly fewer avenues for relief are available ...
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... protection of the State , those without property were forced to de- vote their labor to maintaining the status quo . As in times before , the wealthy were not only free of the need to commit crimes to survive but , should they be found ...
... protection of the State , those without property were forced to de- vote their labor to maintaining the status quo . As in times before , the wealthy were not only free of the need to commit crimes to survive but , should they be found ...
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... protect them , punish- ment of poor people became grotesque spectacles comparable to the Roman practice of sentencing errant slaves and lower class citizens to die in the arena : Publicity was officially believed to enhance the ...
... protect them , punish- ment of poor people became grotesque spectacles comparable to the Roman practice of sentencing errant slaves and lower class citizens to die in the arena : Publicity was officially believed to enhance the ...
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... protection as to the place or nature of their service except such as was extended by quite general legislation . Indentured servants often got scant justice under the laws of the time . Into the nineteenth century this form of labor was ...
... protection as to the place or nature of their service except such as was extended by quite general legislation . Indentured servants often got scant justice under the laws of the time . Into the nineteenth century this form of labor was ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.