The Journal of Negro History, Volum 1

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Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History., 1916
The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.
 

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Pàgina 21 - WOE to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered and peeled, To a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A nation meted out and trodden down, Whose land the rivers have spoiled...
Pàgina 187 - Society shall be called the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States.
Pàgina 95 - It is a maxim with some great military judges, that, with sensible officers, soldiers can hardly be too stupid ; and, on this principle, it is thought that the Russians would make the best soldiers in the world, if they were under other officers than their own.
Pàgina 189 - They mutually pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Pàgina 96 - This will secure their fidelity, animate their courage, and, I believe, will have a good influence upon those who remain, BY OPENING A DOOR TO THEIR EMANCIPATION. This circumstance, I confess, has no small weight in inducing me to wish the success of the project ; for the dictates of humanity and true policy equally interest me in favor of this unfortunate class of men.
Pàgina 216 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Pàgina 92 - I would advance those who are unjustly deprived of the rights of mankind to a state which would be a proper gradation between abject slavery and perfect liberty, and besides I would reinforce the defenders of liberty with a number of gallant soldiers.
Pàgina 86 - On that day, free negroes stood in the ranks by the side of white men. In the beginning of the war, they had entered the provincial army ; the first general order which was issued by Ward, had required a return, among other things, of "the complexion...
Pàgina 46 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? If you poison us, do we not die?
Pàgina 96 - The contempt we have been taught to entertain for the blacks, makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in reason nor experience...

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