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Contents
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Harsh Heaven The Land of the Canaanites | 45 |
Hunger and War | 53 |
Promised Land | 59 |
The Nascent State | 69 |
Foreign Aggression | 115 |
Economic Foundations | 129 |
Politics and the Public Weal | 147 |
Pillars of the Republic | 159 |
The Slavery Issue | 175 |
UpCountry | 199 |
Bitter Canaan | 223 |
An Interpretation of Charles S Johnsons Life and Works | 227 |
THE WATERS OF MARAH | 77 |
Nationalism | 79 |
The Native | 85 |
The Tragedy of Loans | 97 |
Ten Men | 237 |
Bibliography From Johnsons Bibliographic Notes | 243 |
Index | 249 |
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Page 15 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Page 64 - I am an African, and in this country, however meritorious my conduct, and respectable my character, I cannot receive the credit due to either. I wish to go to a country where I shall be estimated by my merits, not by my complexion ; and I feel bound to labor for my suffering race.
Page 13 - 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 submissions on the other.
Page 76 - All hope of a favorable change in our country was thus wholly extinguished in our bosoms, and we looked with anxiety abroad for some asylum from the deep degradation.
Page 23 - States, of all such negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, as may be so delivered and brought within their jurisdiction; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels, seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade, by commanders of The United States
Page 40 - America, to come and sit down upon (to occupy). We told him that the people were very many, and required much territory ; that a few white men only would come along, to assist and take care of them ; that we should make a town where ships would come and trade with cloth, and guns, and beads, and knives, and tobacco, and pipes ; and take in return, their ivory, and palm oil, and rice, and every other thing growing in the fields ; that they would not then need to sell any more people, but might leam...
Page 23 - Under the second section of this act the President is '' authorized to make such regulations and arrangements as he may deem expedient for the safe-keeping, support, and removal beyond the limits of the United States of all such negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color...
Page 54 - ... warfare ! Eight hundred men were here pressed shoulder to shoulder, in so compact a form that a child might easily walk upon their heads from one end of the mass to the other, presenting in their rear a breadth of rank equal to twenty or thirty men, and all exposed to a gun of great power, raised on a platform, at only thirty to sixty yards distance ! Every shot literally spent its force in a solid mass of living human flesh!
Page 70 - Let the regenerated African rise to Empire; nay, let Genius flourish, and Philosophy shed its mild beams to enlighten and instruct the posterity of Ham, returning "redeemed and disenthralled," from their long captivity in the New World. But, Sir, be all these benefits enjoyed by the African race under the shade of their native palms.— Let the Atlantic billow heave its high and everlasting barrier between their country and ours. Let this fair land, which the white man won by his chivalry, which...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bitter Canaan Black and African-American studies |
| Author | Charles Spurgeon Johnson |
| Contributor | John Stanfield |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers, 1987 |
| ISBN | 1412818710, 9781412818711 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Africa / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies |
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