The Mexican Papers ...J.A.H. Hasbrouck & Company, 1861 - Mexico |
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abolition of slavery abolitionism aborigines African slave trade American continent American revolutions annum Brazil British brought Canada Christian coast of Africa COLUMBUS commenced COMMERCIAL SLAVERY Constitution Cruz Cuautla Cuba declared DECLINE OF COMMERCIAL decree Domingo Dutch emancipation encomienda England English entirely existed exports fact France free labor freedom French colonies French West Indies gain of free heathen Hispaniola human importation of negro Indian slaves Indies institution of slavery island of St Kansas land legislation liberated liberty Mexican MEXICAN PAPERS Mexico monopoly mulattoes nations natives negro slaves negro slaves imported North number of negro number of slaves passed persons Peru political Porto Rico Portugal Portuguese possessions principal republic Republican party revolution slave labor slave population slave territory SLAVERY IN AMERICA slavery in Canada slavery in Mexico South Spain Spaniards Spanish American Square Miles tion traffic treaty United Vera Cruz West India islands
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Page 264 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 206 - All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever taken by either party from the other during the war or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places and 'which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves or other private...
Page 182 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page 182 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 204 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which 1'fi is escaped from his master unto thee : He shall dwell with thee ; [even] among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best ': thou shall not oppress him.
Page 182 - ... that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Page 205 - Laurens, four of the Commissioners of the said States, for treating of Peace with the Commissioner of his said Majesty, on their Behalf, on the other part. To...
Page 205 - His Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes, or other property of the American inhabitants...
Page 204 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Page 182 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou ; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee ; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them ; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them : neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.