Download or read book Slavery in Mississippi written by Charles Sackett Sydnor and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life of Alexander Mickles written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Alexander Mickles: One Hundred Years Old; Fifty-Four Years a Slave; Forty-Six Years a Free Man; The Oldest Darky in Mississippi When Aleck was about sixteen years old his father asked, by letter, if he and his family could come to Mobile, Ala, where their master was. Mr. Mickles agreed to this, and the long, wearisome journey was begun at once, coming by railway to Montgomery, Ala., where a. Boat was secured to Mobile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The King of Rivers written by Cora Montgomery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The King of Rivers: With a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory In ascending the Mississippi, it is well to pause and observe, in its very citadel. The workings of slavery. It is the fashion to say, that the mere presence of slavery stagnates the ow of industry, and impedes ruinously the prosperous advance of any country and there is a certain amount of truth in this - as there is in all popular errors; for they must have a little breath of vitality to live - but it is a partial and distorted truth. It is true, that educated and self-governing industrial classes are the ablest supporters of the state, but all producers have their value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book Speech of Mr Davis of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 13& 14, 1850 In this hope I have been disappointed - grievously disappointed by the character of the resolutions which he has introduced, and yet more grievously disappointed in the remarks by which they were prefaced. If that great power and influence to which I have alluded, and that eloquence upon which multitudes have hung entranced, and remembered only to admire, had now been exerted in the cause of the weak against the strong, the cause of the Constitution against its aggressors, the evils by which we are surrounded might perhaps have been removed, and the decline of that Senator's sun been even more bright than its meridian glory. But, instead of this, he has chosen to throw his influence into the scale of the preponderating aggressive majority, and in so doing vehemently to assert his undisputed right to express his opinions fearless of all mankind. Why, sir. there was nothing to apprehend, and I presume no one will dispute the right of the Senator to advance his opinions in any decorous language he might choose. Mr. President, my feelings and my duties run in the same channel. My convictions of what is necessary to preserve the Union correspond with my opinions in relation to the local and peculiar interests which I particularly represent. I have therefore no sacrifices to make, unless it be that personal sacrifice I make in appearing under circumstances like those which now surround me. The greater part of the Senator's argument has been directed against the right of the Southern States to that equality of enjoyment in the Territories to which they assert they are entitled. He has rebuked the spirit of abolitionism as the evil of the country, but, in doing so, instead of describing it as a factious, disorganizing, revolutionary spirit, he has only spoken of it as the offspring of party, the result of passion. Now, Mr. President, I contend that the reverse is true. I contend that it is the want of party which has built up this faction and rendered it dangerous; that so long as party organization preserved its integrity, there was no place for a third party, and no danger from it. If this were merely the result of passion, I should then have hopes which I cannot now cherish. If it were the mere outbreak of violence, I should see some prospect for its subsidence. But considering it, as I do, the cold, calculating purpose of those who seek for sectional dominion, I see nothing short of conquest on the one side, or submission on the other. This is the great danger which hangs over us - not passion - not party; but the settled, selfish purpose which alone can sustain and probably will not abandon the movement. That upon which it originally rested has long since passed away. It is no longer the clamor of a noisy fanaticism, but the steady advance of a self-sustaining power to the goal of unlimited supremacy. This is the crevasse which the Senator described - a crevasse which he figuratively says is threatening submersion to the whole estate, while the owners are quarrelling about the division of its profits. Yes, sir, a moral crevasse has occurred: fanaticism and ignorance - political rivalry - sectional hate - strife for sectional dominion, have accumulated into a mighty flood, and pour their turgid waters through the broken constitution, threatening not total submersion, but only the destruction of a part of the estate - that part in which my constituency, as well as that of the Senator, is found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Download or read book Speech of Hon A G Brown of Mississippi written by Albert Gallatin Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. A G. Brown, of Mississippi: On the Slavery Question; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 29, 1856 Mr. President, it is not my purpose to charge senators with false hood, and certainly I shall not assume the privilege of counselling those opposed to me; but there can be no harm in my saying to the free-soil portion of the Senate, your supporters at home do not believe you are sincere in declaring your opposition to any interference with slavery in the States. They know that, without such interference, there will never be one bondman less; and whenever you convince them that you are sincere, they will turn you out, and send others here more hostile to slavery than you, as you are more hostile than those who went before you. And, to tell the truth, I think they will serve you right in turning, you out. If you did not mean to attack slavery in the States, you ought not to have taught others to believe you did and this you did, as I shall now proceed to show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev James Smylie of the State of Mississippi Classic Reprint written by Gerrit Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie, of the State of Mississippi You undertake to show that slavery existed, and, with the Divine approbation, amongst the Old Testament Jews; and that it also existed, whilst our Saviour and his Apostles were on the earth, and was approved by them. You thence argue, that it is not only an in nocent institution, but one which it is a religious duty to maintain. I admit, for the sake of argument, that there was a servitude in the patriarchal families which was approved by God. But what does this avail in your defence of slavery, unless you show, that that servitude and slavery are essentially alike? The literal terms of the relation of master and servant, under that servitude, are not made known to us but we can, nevertheless, confidently infer their spirit from facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book South Carolina Disunion and a Mississippi Valley Confederacy Classic Reprint written by Samuel Smith Nicholas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from South Carolina, Disunion, and a Mississippi Valley Confederacy The other alleged grievances are, first, the non-rendition of fugitive slaves; and second, the election of Lincoln. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Argument of Robert J Walker Esq written by Robert J. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Argument of Robert J. Walker, Esq.: Before the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Mississippi Slave Question, at January Term, 1841, Involving the Power of Congress and of the States to Prohibit the Inter-State Slave Trade Mr. Walker said, he appeared only for Moses Groves, of Louisiana, whose defence was meritorious as well as legal. He was a mere accommodation endorser, who had been made a party to this illegal contract, without his knowledge or consent, through an endorsement in blank for the accommodation of the drawer of the note. This is evident from the record; but as the question resolved itself into a decision upon the validity of the contract, the following agreement was filed in the case below. "The case is to be defended solely on the question of the validity and legality of the consideration for which the notes sued on were given. It is admitted that the slaves, for which said notes were given, were imported into Mississippi as merchandise, and for sale, in the year 1835, 1836, by plaintiff, but without any previous agreement or understanding, express or implied, between plaintiff and any of the parties to the note; but for sale, generally, to any person who might wish to purchase. The slaves have never been returned to plaintiff, nor tendered to him by any of the parties to the notes sued on." It must be observed, that it is not alleged or pretended that my client, Moses Groves, ever had the possession or control of any of these slaves, or that it ever was in his power to tender or return them. The notes sued on were dated December 20, 1836, and were given and made payable in Mississippi; and the validity of the contract depends upon the following clause in the amended constitution of Mississippi, adopted October 26, 1832. That clause is in these words - "The introduction of slaves into this state as merchandise, or for sale, shall be prohibited from and after the first day of May, 1833: Provided, That the actual settler or settlers shall not be prohibited from purchasing slaves in any State of this Union, and bringing them into this State for their own individual use, till the year 1845. The question arises only on the first branch of this clause; which, it is said, is but a mandate to the legislature to prohibit the introduction of slaves for sale from and after the 1st of May, 1833. But the clause is not directed to the legislature, and is not a mandate in substance or in Form, but an absolute prohibition, operating proprio vigore. It requires no legislation to give it efficacy to avoid this contract; and none such could prevent or postpone its operation. To declare it a mandate, is to interpolate into this provision words of solemn import. No court can introduce into a law, or exclude from it, words not used by the legislature; unless it be clearly necessary to give effect to the law, ut res magis valeat quam pereat. Now the clause - "The introduction of slaves into this state as merchandise, or for sale, shall be prohibited from and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three," is complete of itself, as a prohibition, operating by force of the constitution itself, from and after the day designated by that instrument; and to change it into a mandate, the words "by the legislature" must be interpolated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw Or Scenes on the Mississippi Classic Reprint written by Frances Trollope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, or Scenes on the Mississippi Under twenty, and of the very lowest order Of society. Their garments were Scanty and sordid, and they had much the look and air of that poorly-paid class known in every manufacturing town in the United States as the gals Of the factory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Life on the Mississippi Classic Reprint written by Mark Twain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life on the Mississippi Of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Brief Notice of American Slavery and the Abolition Movement Classic Reprint written by John Bishop Estlin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Notice of American Slavery, and the Abolition Movement The hopeless condition of the Slave, both as regards his men tal improvement, and his eventual restoration to his rights as a man, may be judged of by a bare mention of a few of the laws of the Southern States. These laws somewhat vary in the different States; but the following will be found in some or other of them. Teaching Slaves to read is prohibited under severe penalties, fines and imprisonment, and especially if the free coloured peo ple presume to teach: in Louisiana, death is the legal penalty for the second offence. A father may be flogged for teaching his own child to read the Bible.* Religious assemblies of Slaves are illegal; they may be broken up, and the negroes flogged without trial for being present. The law affords no protection to the marriage of Slaves; masters may at any time enforce a separation between husband and wife. If a free coloured man enter a Southern port on ship board, he is liable to be taken to prison and kept there until the ship sails away; and if the cap tain should fail to pay the expences incurred by his detention, the coloured man is liable to be sold to perpetual Slavery. As sisting Slaves to escape is an offence visited with severe penalties, such as long imprisonment, heavy fines, branding with a hot iron, the pillory, and even death. In Mississippi Slaves are punished capitally for thirty different crimes, all of which in the case of whites are visited only with fine and imprisonment; eight of them, if committed by whites, are not punishable at all. All the Slave States allow the life of a fugitive Slave to be taken, if his escape cannot otherwise be prevented. A Slave, refusing to submit to the lash, may be legally shot. If a Slave be killed by cruel whipping, the master is liable to a fine, or to imprisonment for six months; but as Slave testi mony is not received in evidence, the commission of the offence cannot be proved against masters, if none but negroes were present at the time. However injured a Slave may be by per sonal violence, he cannot prosecute his master, or any one else, for damages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Review of a Letter From the Presbytery of Chillicothe to the Presbytery of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery Classic Reprint written by James Smylie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Review of a Letter, From the Presbytery of Chillicothe, to the Presbytery of Mississippi, on the Subject of Slavery The Romean 'who neglects to kill his father, and to eat him with his dates, when he has become old, is sorely tontuied by the wrihgmgs oi'a gmlty conscience, when his fillial tenderness and sympathy have gained the ascendency over his apprehended tiuty of killing his parent. In like manner, many a slaveholder, whose conscience is guided, not by the word of God, but by the doctrines of men, is often suffering the lashes of a guilty conscience, even when he rendexs to his slave that which is Just and equal, according to the scriptures. Simply because he does not emancipate his slave, irrespective of the benefit or injury done by such an act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Reconstruction in Mississippi Classic Reprint written by James Wilford Garner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reconstruction in Mississippi On the whole, the author concurs in the view of Lamar tine, that it is the province of the historian to relate and not to judge. He has, therefore, except in a few instances where opinions were clearly warranted by the facts, confined him self to a simple statement of the truth and left the reader to form his own conclusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Slaves of Liberty written by Dale Edwyna Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Rural Life in the Lower Mississippi Valley About 1803 Classic Reprint written by William Oscar Scroggs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rural Life in the Lower Mississippi Valley About 1803 Mississippi just above New Orleans. The Germans were very industrious and soon came to play the role of pur veyors to the city, furnishing the urban population with vegetables, fruits, wild fowl, and fish. It was their cus tom every Friday evening to load their pirogues with their produce and oat with the current to the city, Where on Saturdays they would hold a market along the river front.3 There was also a large French element among the inhabitants of the German Coasts, but the Germans showed a tendency to resist assimilation. They pre served their language and customs, and though having none of the open and affable disposition of the French, they are described as being very honest and kind and hospitable to strangers. They owned few slaves, did their own field work, and lived comfortably without ac quiring great wealth.4 The two German Coasts in 1803 contained about inhabitants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book The River s Children written by Ruth McEnery Stuart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi At this particular danger-spot just below the city, a number of cotton-bales, contributed by planters whose fortunes were at stake, were placed in line against a threatening break as primary support, staked securely down and chained to gether. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Slavery and Frontier Mississippi 1720 1835 written by David J. Libby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have considered slavery and Mississippi together in academic studies, assuming that the two were, and always had been, inextricable linked. Libby attempts to answer the hows and whys of slavery's development during the period when Mississippi was a frontier region. His findings suggest that slavery took many shapes in Mississippi before it became the institution stereotyped in so much scholarship studying the later antebellum period. -- adapted from Introduction.