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SLAVERY IN AMERICA

... SLAVERY IN AMERICA While trareUing not long ago in one ot the South. Western Counties in Virginia the following thrilling incident look place;— Starting in the stage-coach, soon after breakfast, the aorning being delightful one in the Utter part of the ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1856
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SECESSION AND SLAVERY

... SECESSION AND SLAVERY. Secede, ye Southern States, secede, No better plan could be, If von of Niggers would bo freed, set your Nigger* free. Runaway slaves federal law At present yon 'reclaim; from the Union straight withdraw. And play the free soil game ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FREEDOM OR SLAVERY

... FREEDOM SLAVERY. became Sovereign state, her people abolished negro slaverj—chiefly, it may observed, through the sensible, persevering, and roost virtuous efforts of negro woman, called Mum Hot, to obtain her own freedom. She got it; and that of all ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1854
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2917 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A PHASE OF SLAVERY

... A PHASE OF SLAVERY. A moving incident came to our knowledge laat week, which we lay before our readers. We suppress names for reasons obvious to every one. Near Louisville* Kentucky, lives ft planter of wealth and standing. He was the possessor of 100 ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 1859
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SLAVERY WITH A WILL

... SLAVERY WITH A WILL. were several times struck, Eastern Texas, with a peculiarity in the lone of the relation between master slave. Elsewhere at the South slavery had seemed to be accepted generally, as a natural, hereditary, established state of things ...

Published: Monday 16 March 1857
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

... The higher civilisation of the North is gradually bearing down upon it, and will slowly occupy the soil slavery has abandoned. Politically, slavery,or the power based on it, is supreme; materially, its Northern borders are being eaten into by the advancing ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1857
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1726 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING AT BANGOR

... United States, and in other parts of the world. promised that his statements regarding slavery that evening should only such wore warranted facts. The existence of slavery in any enlightened country was astonishing; but, when they turned America, boasting ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1851
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1501 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SELECTED POETRY SISTERS AND SLAVERY

... SELECTED POETRY SISTERS AND SLAVERY aKi-aoor, »» tub c dies mu- Dksrest Sisters, implore you, To receive our foud caress, Whilst w* meekly lay before you An affectionate address; not think wc mean blame you a single thing say. desire all to shame you ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1853
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2832 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

and extending slavery, which will fatal their future prosperity, and is a shameful iniquity against the African ..

... extension of slavery to any States and territories where it does not now exist, then such ground might be well worth an nate struggle and even long civil war, if there were any reasonable prospect of nltimate success; beesnse if slavery were strictly ...

Published: Tuesday 16 April 1861
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1291 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sup:ar crops far larger than under slavery. “ 13. Bahamas. Exports and imports, £201,497 304,421

... Sup:ar crops far larger than under slavery. 13. Bahamas. Exports and imports, £201,497 304,421 £102,924 A great and important change for the better in the condition of the people.' 14. Bermudas is very flourishing, hut cannot reckoned a sugar island. ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1858
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 889 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

lence on earth. Reckless and daring many pro- Slavery advocates have proved themselves to be, we never before ..

... lence on earth. Reckless and daring many pro- Slavery advocates have proved themselves to be, we never before met with one so audacious and impious as this Rev. Mr. Brownlow. If we are to take him as a specimen of how the Protestant Clergymen the South ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1857
Newspaper: Belfast Mercury
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 2 | Tags: none