Negro Evangelization and the Tohee Industrial School

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Christian Leader Print, 1898 - African Americans - 16 pages
 

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Page 8 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever...
Page 8 - Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, — Is there One who reigns on high ? Has He bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Ask him if your knotted scourges, Matches...
Page 15 - you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time,
Page 8 - M me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task. Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; Skin may differ, but affection Dwells in black and white the same.
Page 8 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords.
Page 8 - By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks received the chain; By the miseries that we tasted, Crossing in your barks the main; By our sufferings since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart; All, sustained by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart...
Page 8 - To the man-degrading mart, All sustained by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart ; Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Page 8 - By our blood in Afrie wasted Ere our necks received the chain; By the miseries which we tasted Crossing, in your barks, the main; By our offerings since you brought us To the man-degrading mart, All sustained by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart. "Deem our nation brutes no longer Till some reason you shall find Worthier of regard and stronger Than the color of our kind. Slaves of gold! whose sordid dealings...
Page 14 - Once this is done, you produce a happy, independent people, who will lie a credit to the nation and a safeguard to the republic. Industrial schools are the only means of bringing about this result. And as the Disciples of Christ have no such school for the lifting up...
Page 13 - God, he has the divine testimony that he is a child of the devil, and an heir of hell.

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