An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

The lot is wretched, the condition sad, Whether a pining discontent survive, And thirst for change; or habit hath subdued The soul depressed; dejected--even to love Of her dull...

Who can reflect, unmoved, upon the round Of smooth and solemnized complacences, By which, on Christian lands, from age to age, Profession mocks performance. Earth is sick, And H...

In order to decide what is our duty concerning the Africans and their descendants, we must first clearly make up our minds whether they are, or are not, human beings--whether th...

It is not madness That I have utter'd:----For love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks: It will but _skin_ and _...

"I am not much versed, Corporal," quoth my Uncle Toby, "In things of that kind; but I suppose God would not leave him without one any more than thee or me."

The severe laws of Rome discouraged manumission; but it was a very common thing for slaves to pay for freedom, out of their _peculium_; and public opinion made it dishonorable t...

"E'en from my tongue some heartfelt truths may fall; And outraged Nature claims the care of all. These wrongs in _any_ place would force a tear; But call for stronger, deeper fe...

When slave representation was admitted into the Constitution of the United States, a wedge was introduced, which has ever since effectually sundered the sympathies and interests...

The opinion that negroes are naturally inferior in intellect is almost universal among white men; but the belief that they are worse than other people, is, I believe, much less...