| Emma Langdon Roche - Slave-trade - 1914 - 198 pages
...moral obliquity; this clause, "reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also, I believe, felt a... | |
| Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 pages
...was a clause reprobating the African slave trade, but this was stricken out, as Jefferson tells us, "in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it," to which he somewhat naively adds: "Our Northern... | |
| Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 504 pages
...prepared. Jefferson said: '"This clause," says Jefferson; in his Autobiography (I, p. 19), "was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren, also, I believe, felt... | |
| Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - Plantation life - 1918 - 558 pages
...death in their transportation thither." This passage, according to Jefferson's account, "was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe," Jefferson... | |
| Emerson David Fite - United States - 1919 - 1164 pages
...legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce." This clause was struck out "in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren, also, I believe, felt... | |
| Herbert Jacob Seligmann - African Americans - 1920 - 340 pages
...transportation thither.' This passage, according to Jefferson's account, 'was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe,' Jefferson... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 684 pages
...give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...give them offence. The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...and published: " The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also, I believe, felt... | |
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