The Nations from a New Point of ViewNational Baptist Pub. Board, 1903 - 289 pages |
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acres Æneid Africa American Anglo-Saxon Aryan assertion Baltimore Baptist Blumenbach branches Britannica Bruce called Canaan Canaanites Carthage Caucasian race CHAPTER Christian citizens civilization colonies colored race Constitution continent curse Cush Cyclopædia declared descendants of Ham Dido earth Egyp Egypt Egyptians Encyclopædia Britannica Ethiopians fact false father give Greece Greeks Hamite Harvey Johnson Herodotus Homer honor hundred inhabitants Japheth king known land language live mankind married matter means ment Mizraim Monroe Doctrine myth nation origin persons Phoenicians present proof proud prove question quote reason record Rome Sanscrit says scientific settled Shem Shemite Shinar simply skull slavery slaves social equality sons of Noah tell term Negro theory thing thousands tion to-day told tribes true truth United white man's white race whole word Negro writes
Popular passages
Page 258 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 94 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 260 - ... only an assumption not warranted by anything in the Constitution, but contradicted by its opening declaration, that it was ordained and established by the people of the United States, for themselves and their posterity. And as free colored persons were then citizens of at least five states, and so in every sense part of the people of the United States, they were among those for whom and whose posterity the Constitution was ordained and established.
Page 69 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 268 - ... we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or, controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Page 268 - With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and just principles acknowledged, WE COULD NOT VIEW ANY INTERPOSITION FOR THE PURPOSE OF OPPRESSING THEM, OR CONTROLLING IN ANY OTHER MANNER THEIR DESTINY, BY ANY EUROPEAN POWER IN ANY OTHER LIGHT THAN AS THE MANIFESTATION OF AN UNFRIENDLY DISPOSITION...
Page 190 - And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Page 69 - Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Page 167 - Prichard supposed on insufficient evidence; (12) thick epidermis, cool, soft and velvety to the touch, mostly hairless, and emitting a peculiar rancid odor, compared by Pruner Bey to that of the buck goat; (15) frame of medium height, thrown somewhat out of the perpendicular by the shape of the pelvis, the spine, the backward projection of the head, and the whole anatomical structure; (14) the cranial sutures, which close much earlier in the negro than in other races.
Page 88 - To be said on coming forth by day; that one may not be kept back on the path of the Tuat, whether on entering or on coming forth; for taking all the forms which one desireth; and the soul of the person die not a second time. If then this chapter be known the person is made triumphant upon earth (and in the Netherworld) and he performeth all things which are done by the living. This...