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Showing posts with label African Slave Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Slave Trade. Show all posts
Friday, June 12, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, Friday, June 24, 1859

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[Cold, rainy weather.] Barton I suppose will not go today — nor Coalter, who rides his (B[arton]'s) saddle horse, while B.[arton] drives...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, May 27, 1859

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The N. York Commercial advertiser of May 23d. contains a very complimentary notice of my letter to the Whig Committee, 62 and extracts the ...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Abraham Lincoln’s 4th Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864

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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Again the blessings of health and abundant harvests claim our pro-roundest gra...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

James Madison to the Marquis de Lafayette, November 25, 1820

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MONTPELLIER, Nov 25, 1820. I have received, my dear friend, your kind letter of July 22, inclosing your printed opinion on the Election pr...

Speech of George Mason, August 22, 1787

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The infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to s...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Non-Intercourse Resolution of the First Continental Congress, October 20, 1774

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Resolved unanimously, That from and after the first day of December next, there be no importation into British America from Great Britain or...

Thomas Jefferson: [Extract:] Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The Ostend Manifesto,* October 18, 1854

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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 18th, 1854. TO THE HON. WM. L. MARCY,           Secretary of State. SIR: The undersigned, in compliance with the w...