… taking into custody, whereby it seemed most likely the truth would bolt out, before they had time to cool, or … with it the additional weight of the greater appearance of truth, may make this particular the more excusable; and … The difficulty of bringing and holding them to the truth, if by chance it starts through them, is not to be …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Press); Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers for “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” … audience. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” … The wealth and status of slaveholding women rested upon property in persons in a system that defied the gender of law …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… held up and shot while on a research trip to Java. He is buried in the Christian Cemetery, Bandoeng, Central Java, … U.S., May 1, 1950 View image "Prof. Kennedy, Murder Victim Buried in Java, "THE DAY, New London, May 1, 1950 View …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… traced the 18th-century collision between France’s Free Soil tradition (whereby any slave who set foot on French soil was free) and the expansion of chattel slavery in … Martin’s, 2007). She is currently writing two books, Free Soil in the Atlantic World, a synthetic study of claims to …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… of enslaved peoples being treated as both human beings and property. The “value” that slave owners imparted to the … legal proceedings in the South that also treated them as property? In what specific ways does the law treat the enslaved as people and in what ways as property? What circumstances would make slave owners …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… her borders and join a teetotal society. There is as much truth in this as you can hang a few falsehoods upon. There is truth at the beginning. It will remove slavery, it will … is to adopt the most efficacious means of applying gospel truth. I dined the other day with six ministers in Perth. …
… They say we make you free. If they make us free they tell truth, if they not make us free they tell lie. If America … punish us if we tell lie. We never tell lie; we speak the truth, What for Mendi people afraid? Because they have got … Give us Missionary. We tell Mendi people Americans spoke truth. We give them good tidings. We tell them there is one …