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Lindley Spring
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The Negro at home (The Black heritage library collection) |
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English |
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Unknown Binding |
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237 |
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1971 |
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0836987586 |
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Books for Libraries Press |
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1868. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL " A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man." " Here's a young lad framed of another leer, Look how the black slave smiles upon his father, As who should say, Old Lad, I am thine own." SEDGJO. --A Citizen of Africa--a slave in America. His account of matters. " Sedgjo was apparently about sixty years of age--was esteemed to be unusually intelligent for an African. We propose to give the substance of his narrative without regard to his language or manner. For a length of time we made it an object to draw out his knowledge and notions; and on the subject of the Deity his idea was, that the power which made him was Procreation, and that as far as regarded his existence, he need not care for any other God. This deity was to be worshiped in whatever act would represent him as Procrcator. The more the act of worship was. wounding to the feelings of sense or delicacy, the more acceptable it was to the god. The displays of this worship could not be described. CUSTOMS--PEACE AND WAR. 176 " Sedgjo's account put us in mind of Maacah, the mother of Asa. In this account it was not uncommon to kill, roast, and eat young children, with the view to propitiate the gods and make the parents prolific. So also the first-born of a mother was sometimes killed and eaten, in thankfulness to the god for making them the instruments of its pro creation. The king was the owner and master of the whole tribe. He might kill or do whatever else he pleased with them. The whole tribe was essentially his slaves. But he usually made use of them as a sort of soldiers. Those who were put to death at feasts or sacrifices, were, generally, persons captured from other tribes. Persons captured were also slaves, might be kil...
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