| | 221 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Old-Time Love Story  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON the shelves of the libraries of our historical societies are
many privately printed volumes, the histories of American families
whose ancestors settled here in early days. They usually are dull
reading enough, but we sometimes find in them fragments of real
life more strange and tragic than any fiction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 223 | Author: | Dawes, Henry L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Have We Failed with the Indian? | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN the public mind is directed to a discussion of the wisest
and safest attitude toward other alien races whose future has been put in
our keeping, our policy with the Indians becomes an object lesson
worthy of careful and candid study. It is for this purpose that attention
is here invited to what that policy has come to be, and what it has thus
far accomplished. The treatment of the Indian has been the subject of
much study and experiment that has proved fruitless. Only by the
process of elimination after experiment have the multitude of ephemeral
and ineffective methods given way to one which has at last come to hold
undivided public support for a time long enough to test its
efficacy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 224 | Author: | Dawes, Henry L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Indian Territory." | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN order to understand the purpose for which the Commission to the
Five Civilized Tribes was created, and the present condition of
their work, it will be necessary to refresh our memories as to the
conditions which caused its appointment. So much of the past of
these tribes as is essential for this purpose is briefly this.
These tribes are the Cherokees, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the
Creeks, and the Seminoles, numbering about 64,000 at the last
census. Seventy years ago they were living on their own lands in
Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi, and to induce them to
surrender these lands to the white men of the States where they
were situated, the United States gave them in exchange the Indian
Territory. In the treaties made with them we conveyed the title to
the lands directly to the tribes for the use of the people of the
tribes to hold as long as they maintained their tribal
organizations and occupied them. This stipulation prevented their
parting with them without the consent of the United States. We
stipulated in these treaties that they should have the right to
establish their own governments without our interference, such
governments as they pleased, not in conflict with the constitution
of the United States. We also covenanted with them that we would
keep all the white people out of their territory. Having thus set
them up for themselves in a territory far west of any of the
States, beyond all further trouble, as it was thought, we left them
to do as they pleased for forty years. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 228 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pickwick papers | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | 'MY DEAR PICKWICK,—YOU, my dear friend, are placed far
beyond the reach of many mortal frailties and weaknesses which
ordinary people cannot overcome. You do not know what it
is, at one blow, to be deserted by a lovely and fascinating
creature, and to fall a victim to the artifices of a villain, who had
the grin of cunning beneath the mask of friendship. I hope you
never may. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 231 | Author: | Dodge, David | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Free Negroes of North Carolina" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | According to the census of 1860, there were in the United States,
in round numbers, 487,000 free negroes, of which the fifteen slave-holding States contained 251,000. Virginia stood first, with
58,000; North Carolina second, with 30,000; and in the seven States
south of these, in which the most rigorous free-negro laws
prevailed, there were a total of less than 40,000. In Virginia
they formed 10.60 per cent. of the negro population, in North
Carolina 8.42 per cent., and in the other seven States alluded to
considerably less than two per cent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 234 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A VERY limited statement of the argument for impartial
suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would
require more space than can be reasonably asked here. It is
supported by reasons as broad as the nature of man, and as numerous
as the wants of society. Man is the only government-making animal
in the world. His right to a participation in the production and
operation of government is an inference from his nature, as direct
and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education.
It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that
he shall not share in the making and directing of the government
under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire
property and education. The fundamental and unanswerable argument
in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the
undisputed fact of his manhood. He is a man, and by every fact and
argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro
can sustain his right equally. It is plain that, if the right
belongs to any, it belongs to all. The doctrine that some men have
no rights that others are bound to respect, is a doctrine which we
must banish as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated.
If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the
whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a
war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 235 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Color Line" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Few evils are less accessible to the force of reason, or more
tenacious of life and power, than a long-standing prejudice. It is
a moral disorder, which creates the conditions necessary to its own
existence, and fortifies itself by refusing all contradiction. It
paints a hateful picture according to its own diseased imagination,
and distorts the features of the fancied original to suit the
portrait. As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can
easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in
those we despise and hate. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 236 | Author: | Brock: Douglass, William | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America / by William Douglass | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The many Schemes at present upon the Anvil in Boston,
for emitting enormous Quantities of Paper Currencies; are the Occasion
of this Discourse. The Writer does not vainly pretend to dictate to
Government, or prescribe to Trade; but with a sincere Regard to the
publick Good, has taken some Pains, to collect, digest, and set in a
proper Light, several Facts and Political Experiences especially
relating to Paper Currencies; which tho' plain in themselves, are not
obvious to every Body. If any Expressions should sound harsh, they are
not to be understood as a Reflection upon this Province in general: It
was always my Opinion, That the Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay, is by far the most vigorous and promising
Plant (with proper Cultivation) of all the British Plantations; in the
best of Countries at Times, bad Administrations, and private evil Men of
Influence have prevailed. The Author is not a transient Person, who
from Humour or Caprice, or other Views may expose the Province; but is
by Inclination induced, and by Interest obliged to study the Good of the
Country. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 237 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | My Escape from Slavery | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written
nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given
the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the
manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that
such publication at any time during the existence of slavery might
be used by the master against the slave, and prevent the future
escape of any who might adopt the same means that I did. The
second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence: the
publication of details would certainly have put in peril the
persons and property of those who assisted. Murder itself was not
more sternly and certainly punished in the State of Maryland than
that of aiding and abetting the escape of a slave. Many colored
men, for no other crime than that of giving aid to a fugitive
slave, have, like Charles T. Torrey, perished in prison. The
abolition of slavery in my native State and throughout the country,
and the lapse of time, render the caution hitherto
observed no longer necessary. But even since the abolition of
slavery, I have sometimes thought it well enough to baffle
curiosity by saying that while slavery existed there were good
reasons for not telling the manner of my escape, and since slavery
had ceased to exist, there was no reason for telling it. I shall
now, however, cease to avail myself of this formula, and, as far as
I can, endeavor to satisfy this very natural curiosity. I should,
perhaps, have yielded to that feeling sooner, had there been
anything very heroic or thrilling in the incidents connected with
my escape, for I am sorry to say I have nothing of that sort to
tell; and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery
which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of
freedom, were essential features in the undertaking. My success
was due to address rather than courage, to good luck rather than
bravery. My means of escape were provided for me by the very men
who were making laws to hold and bind me more securely in slavery. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 240 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-
slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was
my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK
DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative. He
was a stranger to nearly every member of that body;
but, having recently made his escape from the south-
ern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity
excited to ascertain the principles and measures of
the abolitionists, — of whom he had heard a somewhat
vague description while he was a slave, — he was in-
duced to give his attendance, on the occasion al-
luded to, though at that time a resident in New
Bedford. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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