The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
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| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes, Countless and vehement, the sons of God, Our brethren!” | quote | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Fears in Solitude. 1798. | Poetry |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes, Countless and vehement, the sons of God, Our brethren!” | quote | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Fears in Solitude. 1798. | Poetry |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “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 tasks and close captivity.” | quote | Wordsworth, William. The Excursion. 1814. | Poetry |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “My ear is pained, My soul is afox with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which this earth is filled. These flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not for man.” | quote | Cowper, William. The Task: A Poem. 1787. | Poetry |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “She expressed her concern lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent; declaring that such a thing would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers.” | quote | Hill, John. The Naval History of Britain. 1756. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “devilish white” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “The vessel had taken in, on the coast of Africa, three hundred and thirtysix males, and two hundred and twentysix females, making in all five hundred and sixtytwo; she had been out seventeen days, during which she had thrown overboard fiftyfive. They were all inclosed under grated hatchways, between decks. The space was so low, and they were stowed so close together, that there was no possibility of lying down, or changing their position, night or day. The greater part of them were shut out from light and air; and this when the thermometer, exposed to the open sky, was standing, in the shade on our deck, at eightynine degrees. The space between decks was divided into two compartments, three feet three inches high. Two hundred and twentysix women and girls were thrust into one space two hundred and eightyeight feet square; and three hundred and thirtysix men and boys were crammed into another space eight hundred feet square; giving the whole an average of twentythree inches; and to each of the women not more than thirteen inches; though several of them were in a state of health, which peculiarly demanded pity.— As they were shipped on account of different individuals, they were branded like sheep, with the owner's marks of different forms; which, as the mate informed me with perfect indifference, had been burnt in with red-hot iron. Over the hatch-way stood a ferocious looking fellow, the slave-driver of the ship, with a scourge of many-twisted thongs in his hand; whenever he heard the slightest noise from below, he shook it over them, and seemed eager to exercise it. As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their melancholy visages brightened up. They perceived something of sympathy and kindness in our looks, to which they had not been accustomed; and feeling instinctively that we were friends, they immediately began to shout and clap their hands. The women were particularly excited. They all held up their arms, and when we bent down and shook hands with them, they could not contain their delight; they endeavored to scramble upon their knees, stretching up to kiss our hands, and we understood they knew we had come to liberate them. Some, however, hung down their heads in apparently hopeless dejection; some were greatly emaciated; and some, particularly children, seemed dying. The heat of these horrid places was so great, and the odor so offensive, that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there been room. The officers insisted that the poor, suffering creatures should be admitted on deck to get air and water. This was opposed by the mate of the slaver, who (from a feeling that they deserved it,) declared they should be all murdered. The officers, however, persisted, and the poor beings were all turned out together. It is impossible to conceive the effect of this eruption — five hundred and seventeen fellow-creatures, of all ages and sexes, some children, some adults, some old men and women, all entirely destitute of clothing, scrambling out together to taste the luxury of a little fresh air and water. They came swarming up, like bees from a hive, till the whole deck was crowded to suffocation from stom to stern; so that it was impossible to imagine where they could all have come from, or how they could have been stowed away. On looking into the places where they had been crammed, there were found some children next the sides of the ship, in the places most remote from light and air, they were lying nearly in a torpid state, after the rest had turned out. The little creatures seemed indifferent as to life or death; and when they were carried on deck, many of them could not stand. After enjoying for a short time the unusual luxury of air, some water was brought; it was then that the extent of their sufferings was exposed in a fearful manner. They all rushed like maniacs towards it. No entreaties, or threats, or blows, could restrain them; they shrieked, and struggled, and fought with one another, for a drop of this precious liquid, as if they grew rabid at the sight of it. There is nothing from which slaves in the mid-passage suffer so much as want of water. It is sometimes usual to take out casks filled with sea-water as ballast, and when the slaves are received on board, to start the casks, and re-fill them with fresh. On one occasion, a ship from Bahia neglected to change the contents of their casks, and on the mid-passage found, to their horror, that they were filled with nothing but salt water. All the slaves on board perished! We could judge of the extent of their sufferings from the afflicting sight we now saw. When the poor creatures were ordered down again, several of them came, and pressed their heads against our knees, with looks of the greatest anguish, with the prospect of returning to the horrid place of suffering below.” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “With infinite regret, therefore, we were obliged to restore his papers to the captain, and permit him to proceed, after nine hours' detention and close investigation. It was dark when we separated, and the last parting sounds we heard from the unhallowed ship, were the cries and shrieks of the slaves, suffering under some bodily infliction.” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Notwithstanding the benevolent and pursevering exertions of England, this horrid traffic in human flesh is surely as extensively carried on as ever, and under circumstances perhaps of a more revolting character. The very shifts at evasion, the necessity for concealment, and the desperate hazard, cause inconveneience and sufferings to the poor creatures in a very aggravated degree.” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Some are employed as domestic slaves, when and how the owner pleases; by day or by night, on Sunday or other days, in any measure or degree, with any remuneration or with none, with what kind or quantity of food the owner of the human beast may choose. Male or female, young or old, weak or strong, may be punished with or without reason, as caprice or passion may prompt. When the drudge does not suit, he may be sold for some inferior purpose, like a horse that has seen his best days, till like a worn-out beast he dies, unpitied and forgotten! Kept in ignorance of the holy precepts and divine consolations of Christianity, he remains a Pagan in a Christian land, without even an object of idolatrous worship— ‘having no hope, and without God in the world.’” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | ‘having no hope, and without God in the world.’” | quote | Ephesians. | Sacred text |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Such is this constitution of things, that we cannot inflict an injury without suffering from it ourselves: he, who blesses another, benefits himself; but he, who sins against his fellow creature, does his own soul a grievous wrong.” | quote | Godwin, Benjamin. The Substance of a Course of Lectures on British Colonial Slavery. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “On Monday the 11th inst., will be sold in front of the High Constable's office, one bright mulatto woman, about twentysix years of age; also, some empty barrels, and sundry old candle boxes.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “A child on board a slave-ship, of about ten months old, took sulk and would not eat; the captain flogged it with a cat-o'-nine-tails; swearing that he would make it eat, or kill it. From this, and other ill-treatment, the limbs swelled. He then ordered some water to be made hot to abate the swelling. But even his tender mercies were cruel. The cook, on putting his hand into the water, said it was too hot. Upon this the captain swore at him, and ordered the feet to be put in. This was done. The nails and skin came off. Oiled cloths were then put around them. The child was at length tied to a heavy log. Two or three days afterwards, the captain caught it up again, and repeated that he would make it eat, or kill it. He immediately flogged it again, and in a quarter of an hour it died. And after the babe was dead, whom should the barbarian select to throw it overboard, but the wretched mother! In vain she tried to avoid the office. He beat her, till he made her take up the child and carry it to the side of the vessel. She then dropped it into the sea, turning her head the other way, that she might not see it.” | quote | Clarkson, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament. 1808. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “In 1780, a slave-trader, detained by contrary winds on the American coast, and in distress, selected one hundred and thirtytwo of his sick slaves, and threw them into the sea, tied together in pairs, that they might not escape by swimming. He hoped the Insurance Company would indemnify him for his loss; and in the lawsuit, to which this gave birth, he observed that ‘negroes cannot be considered in any other light than as beasts of burden; and to lighten a vessel it is permitted to throw overboard its least valuable effects.’ Some of the unhappy slaves escaped from those who attempted to tie them, and jumped into the sea. One of them was saved by means of a cord thrown by the sailors of another vessel; and the monster who murdered his innocent companions had the audacity to claim him as his property. The judges, either from shame, or a sense of justice, refused his demand.” | quote | Grégoire, Henri Jean-Baptiste. De La Littérature des Nègres, ou Recherches sur Leurs Facultés Intellectuelles, Leurs Qualités Morales et Leur Littérature. 1808. | Literary criticism |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | ‘negroes cannot be considered in any other light than as beasts of burden; and to lighten a vessel it is permitted to throw overboard its least valuable effects.’ | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “the happiest part of a negro's life.” | quote | Cobbett, William. The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. 1815. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “I,” | quote | Cobbett, William. The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. 1815. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “was employed to dance the men, while another person danced the women.” | quote | Cobbett, William. The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. 1815. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “It is a destruction, which if general but for ten years, would depopulate the world, and extinguish the human race.” | quote | Clarkson, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament. 1808. | History |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “There must, doubtless, be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. The parent storms; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in a circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy, who can retain his morals and manners undepraved in such circumstances.” | quote | Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1787. | Political writing |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “For many years,” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “this man kept his son in slavery, and maintained the right to dispose of him, as he would of his mule. Being ill, however, and near to die, he made his will, left his child his freedom, and apprised him of it. Some time after, he recovered, and having a dispute with the young man, he threatened to sell him with the rest of his stock. The son, determined to prevent this, assassinated his father in a wood, got possession of the will, demanded his freedom, and obtained it. This circumstance was perfectly well known in the neighborhood, but no process was instituted against him. He was not chargeable, as I could hear, with any other delinquency than the horrible one of murdering his father to obtain his freedom.” | quote | Walsh, Robert. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829. 1830. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Henry and Helen Moss have been found guilty of a misdemeanor, for their cruelty to their slave Kate; and those facts of the case, which seem beyond dispute, appear to be as follows: | quote | Huskisson, William. Despatch of Mr. Secretary Huskisson to the Governor of the Bahamas, on the Subject of the Cruelties perpetrated by Henry and Helen Moss on a Female Negro Slave who died under the infliction, and the Application for Remission of their Punishment. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “the most respectable people in the island petitioned for a mitigation of their punishment, visited them in prison, did everything to identify themselves with them, and on their liberation from jail, gave them a public dinner as a matter of triumph!” | quote | Huskisson, William. Despatch of Mr. Secretary Huskisson to the Governor of the Bahamas, on the Subject of the Cruelties perpetrated by Henry and Helen Moss on a Female Negro Slave who died under the infliction, and the Application for Remission of their Punishment. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “In the country of Livington, Kentucky, near the mouth of Cumberland river, lived Lilburn Lewis, the son of Jefferson's sister. He was the wealthy owner of a considerable number of slaves, whom he drove constantly, fed sparingly, and lashed severely. The consequence was, they would run away. Among the rest was an ill- grown boy, about seventeen, who, having just returned from a skulking spell, was sent to the spring for water, and, in returning, let fall an elegant pitcher, which dashed to shivers on the rocks. It was night, and the slaves were all at home. The master had them collected into the most roomy negro-house, and a rousing fire made.” | quote | Rankin, John (editor). Letters on American Slavery. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “The door was fastened, that none of the negroes, either through fear or sympathy, should attempt to escape; he then told them that the design of this meeting was to teach them to remain at home and obey his orders. All things being now in train, George was called up, and by the assistance of his younger brother, laid on a broad bench or block. The master then cut off his ancles with a broad axe. In vain the unhappy victim screamed. Not a hand among so many dared to interfere. Having cast the feet into the fire he lectured the negroes at some length. He then proceeded to cut off his limbs below the knees. The sufferer besought him to begin with his head. It was in vain — the master went on thus, until trunk, arms, and head, were all in the fire. Still protracting the intervals with lectures, and threatenings of like punishment, in case any of them were disobedient, or ran away, or disclosed the tragedy they were compelled to witness. In order to comsume the bones, the fire was briskly stirred until midnight: when, as if heaven and earth combined to show their detestation of the deed, a sudden shock of earthquake threw down the heavy wall, composed of rock and clay, extinguished the fire, and covered the remains of George. The negroes were allowed to disperse, with charges to keep the secret, under the penalty of like punishment. When his wife asked the cause of the dreadful screams she had heard, he said that he had never enjoyed himself so well at a ball as he had enjoyed himself that evening. Next morning, he ordered the wall to be rebuilt, and he himself supeintended, picking up the remains of the boy, and placing them within the new wall, thus hoping to conceal the matter. But some of the negroes whispered the horrid deed; the neighbors tore down the wall, and finding the remains, they testified against him. He was bound over to await the sitting of the court; but before that period arrived, he committed suicide.” | quote | Rankin, John (editor). Letters on American Slavery. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “N.B. This happened in 1811; if I be correct, it was on the 16th of December. It was on the Sabbath.” | quote | Rankin, John (editor). Letters on American Slavery. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Did not the Asiatics employ elephants in war? If a man were bitten by a rabid dog, would he hesitate to cut off the wounded part, in order to save his life?” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Honesty is the best policy; but policy without honesty never finds that out.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Do unto others, as ye would that others should do unto you” | quote | Luke. | Sacred text |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Thou shalt not steal,” | quote | Exodus. | Sacred text |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Thou shalt do no murder” | quote | Exodus. | Sacred text |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “About forty black men were chained together; each of them was handcuffed, and they were arranged rank and file. A chain, perhaps forty feet long, was stretched between the two ranks, to which short chains were joined, connected with the hand-cuffs. Behind them were about thirty women, tied hand to hand. Every countenance wore a solemn sadness; and the dismal silence of despair was only broken by the sound of two violins. Yes — as if to add insult to unjury, the foremost couple were furnished with a violin apiece; the second couple were ornamented with cockades; while near the centre our national standard was carried by hands literally in chains. I may have mistaken some of the punctilios of the arrangement, for my very soul was sick. My landlady was sister to the man who owned the drove; and from her I learned that he had, a few days previous, bought a negro woman, who refused to go with him. A blow on the side of her head with the butt of his whip, soon brought her to the ground; he then tied her, and carried her off. Besides those I saw, about thirty negroes, destined for the New Orleans market, were shut up in the Paris jail, for safe keeping.” | quote | Rankin, John (editor). Letters on American Slavery. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “the frequency with which the streets of the city had been crowded with manacled captives, sometimes even on the Sabbath, could not fail to shock the feelings of all humane persons; that it was repugnant to the spirit of our political institutions, and the rights of men; and he believed it was calculated to impair the public morals, by familiarizing scenes of cruelty to the minds of youth.” | quote | Morrell. Charge to the Grand Jury of Washington, for the District of Columbia, January 1816. 1816. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “To enumerate all the horrid and aggravating instances of man-stealing, which are known to have occurred in the state of Delaware, within the recollection of many of the citizens of that State, would require a volume. In many cases, whole families of free colored people have been attacked in the night, beaten nearly to death with clubs, gagged and bound, and dragged into distant and hopeless captivity, leaving no traces behind, except the blood from their wounds. During the last winter, the house of a free black family was broken open, and its defenceless inhabitants treated in the manner just mentioned, except, that the mother escaped from their merciless grasp, while on their way to the state of Maryland. The plunderers, of whom there were nearly half a dozen, conveyed their prey upon horses; and the woman being placed on one of the horses, behind, improved an opportunity, as they were passing a house, and sprang off. Not daring to pursue her, they proceeded on, leaving her youngest child a little farther along, by the side of the road, in expectation, it is supposed, that its cries would attract the mother; but she prudently waited until morning, and recovered it again in safety. I consider myself more fully warranted in particularizing this fact, from the circumstances of having been at Newcastle, at the time that the woman was brought with her child, before the grand jury, for examination; and of having seen several of the persons against whom bills of indictment were found, on the charge of being engaged in the perpetration of the outrage; and also that one or two of them were the same who were accused of assisting in seizing and carrying off another woman and child whom I discovered at Washington. A monster in human shape, was detected in the city of Philadelphia, pursuing the occupation of courting and marrying mulatto women, and selling them as slaves. In his last attempt of this kind, the fact having come to the knowledge of the African population of this city, a mob was immediately collected, and he was only saved from being torn in atoms, by being deposited in the city prison. They have lately invented a method of attaining their object, through the instrumentality of the laws: — Having selected a suitable free colored person, to make a pitch upon, the kidnapper employs a confederate, to ascertain the distinguishing marks of his body; he then claims and obtains him as a slave, before a magistrate, by describing those marks, and proving the truth of his assertions, by his well-instructed accomplice. From the best information that I have had opportunities to collect, in travelling by various routes through the states of Delaware and Maryland, I am fully convinced that there are, at this time, within the jurisdiction of the United States, several thousands of legally free people of color, toiling under the yoke of involuntary servitude, and transmitting the same fate to their posterity! If the probability of this fact could be authenticated to the recognition of the Congress of the United States, it is presumed that its members, as agents of the constitution, and guardians of the public liberty, would, without hesitation, devise means for the restoration of those unhappy victims of violence and avarice, to their freedom and constitutional personal rights. The work, both from its nature and magnitude, is impracticable to individuals, or benevolent societies; besides, it is perfectly a national business, and claims national interference, equally with the captivity of our sailors in Algiers.” | quote | Torrey, Jesse. Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States. 1817. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Dealing in slaves has become a large business. Establishments are made at several places in Maryland and Virginia, at which they are sold like cattle. These places are strongly built, and well supplied with thumbscrews, gags, cow-skins, and other whips, oftentimes bloody. But the laws permit the traffic, and it is suffered.” | quote | [unknown] (editor). Niles' Weekly Register. 1811 – 1849. | Uncategorized periodical |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “The fustian flag that proudly waves, In splendid mockery, o'er a land of slaves” | quote | Moore, Thomas. Epistle VI: To Lord Viscount Forbes. | Poetry |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “E'en from my tongue some heart-felt 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 feeling here. O, sons of freedom! equalize your laws— Be all consistent — plead the negro's cause — Then all the nations in your code may see, That, black or white, Americans are free.” | quote | [unknown]. “Epitaph to The Padlock.” Cave, Edward (editor). The Gentleman's Magazine. 1731 – 1922. | Uncategorized periodical |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Any person whose maternal ancestor, even in the remotest degree of distance, can be shown to have been a negro, Indian, mulatto, or a mestizo, not free at the ime this law was introduced, although the paternal ancestor at each successive generation may have been a white free man, is declared to be the subject of perpetual slavery.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “for the ‘better encouragement of soldiers,’ whatever Indian prisoners were taken in a war, in which the colony was then engaged, should be free purchase to the soldiers taking them” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “all servants brought into Virginia, by sea or land, not being Christians, whether negroes, Moors, mulattoes, or Indians, (except Turks and Moors in amity with Great Britain) and all Indians, which should thereafter be sold by neighboring Indians, or any other trafficking with us, as slaves, should be slaves to all intents and purposes.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “either individually, or in lots, to suit the purchaser,” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “All negroes and other slaves, already imported, or hereafter to be imported into this province, and all children now born, or hereafter to be born, of such negroes and slaves, shall be slaves during their natural lives.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “All negroes, Indians, (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulattoes, and mestizoes, who are now free, excepted,) mulattoes or mestizoes, who now are, or shall hereafter be in this province, and all their issue born, or to be born, shall be and remain forever hereafter absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “any master, who withholds proper sustenance, or clothing, from his slaves, or overworks them, so as to injure their health, shall upon sufficient information” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “being laid before the grand jury, be by said jury presented; whereupon it shall be the duty of the attorney, or solicitor general, to prosecute said owners, who, on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine, or be imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “Whereas many owners of slaves, and others, who have the care, management, and overseeing of slaves, do confine them so closely to hard labor, that they have not sufficient time for natural rest; be it therefore enacted, that if any owner of slaves, or others having the care, &c., shall put such slaves to labor more than fifteen hours in twentyfour, from the twentyfifth of March to the twentyfifth of September; or more than fourteen hours in twentyfour hours from the twentyfifth of September to the twentyfifth of March, any such person shall forfeit a sum of money not exceeding twenty pounds, nor under five pounds, current money, for every time, he, she, or they, shall offend therein, at the discretion of the justice before whom complaint shall be made.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “the slaves shall be allowed half an hour for breakfast, during the whole year; from the first of May to the first of November, they shall be allowed two hours for dinner; and from the first of November to the first of May, one hour and a half for dinner: provided, however, that the owners, who will themselves take the touble of having the meals of their slaves prepared, be, and they are hereby authorized to abridge, by half an hour a day, the time fixed for their rest.” | quote | Stroud, George. A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. 1827. | |