 | William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 264 pages
...be anxious for it, should lay aside their prejudices, and act towards them as they do by others. ' We are NATIVES of this country; we ask only to be...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Let these moderate requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor any where else, to... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 278 pages
...be anxious for it, should lay aside their prejudices, and act towards them as they do by others. ' We are NATIVES of this country; we ask only to be...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Let these moderate requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor any where else, to... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 250 pages
...towards them as they do by others. ' We are NATIVES of this country; we ask only to be treated sts well as FOREIGNERS. Not a few of our fathers suffered...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Let these moderate requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor any where else, to... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - African American soldiers - 1855 - 416 pages
...Spartan brevity, in the appeal of a well-known colored man, Rev. I'ETKR WILLIAMS, of New York : — " We are NATIVES of this country : we ask only to be...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor." WENDELL PHILLIPS. NORTHAMPTON, Oct. 25, 1852. AUTHOR'S PREFACE. IK the month of July, 1847,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1866 - 302 pages
...was toid to me. A REASONABLE REQUEST. WE are natives of this country; we ask only to be treated us well as foreigners. Not a few of our fathers suffered...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor. — REV. PETEK WILLIAMS, colored Rector of St. Philip's Church, New York, 1835. THE SLAVE POET.... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - History - 1870 - 444 pages
...by one of their own number, the late Rev. PETER WILLIAMS, rector of St. Philip's church, New York: "We are natives of this country; we ask only to be...come from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor." Mr. Williams, during the mob violence in the city of New York, was* the leading minister of... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 456 pages
...to purchase its independence. Wo nsk only to bo treated as well as thoso who fought against it. AVo have toiled to cultivate it, and to raise it to its...privileges with those who come from distant lands to enjoy tho fruits of our labor." Mr. AVilliams, during tho mob violence in tho city of New York, was tho loading... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - Study Aids - 1990 - 650 pages
...delivered by Peter Williams, pastor of St. Phillips Episcopal Church in New York (1830) We are the NATIVES of this country, we ask only to be treated...requests be granted, and we need not go to Africa nor anywhere else to be improved and happy. We cannot but doubt the purity of the motives of those persons... | |
 | Celeste Michelle Condit, John Louis Lucaites - History - 1993 - 378 pages
...Williams argued, "We are NATIVES of this country, we ask only to be treated as well as FOREIGNERS. . . . We have toiled to cultivate it, and to raise it to...distant lands, to enjoy the fruits of our labour. "86 African-American rhetors and their allies thus introduced a significant conceptual alteration in... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - Social Science - 1998 - 352 pages
...received with the situation of recent European arrivals. He claimed blacks' rights as Americans, saying we are NATIVES of this country; we ask only to be...ask only to share equal privileges with those who came from distant lands to enjoy the fruits of our labor.73 Black abolitionists' anticolonization stance... | |
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We are NATIVES of this country, we ask only to be treated as well as FOREIGNERS. Not a few of our fathers suffered and bled to purchase its independence; we ask only to be treated as well as those who fought against it. We have toiled to cultivate it,... 
