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Example sentences for "servile insurrection"

  • The feeling of peace at home has given place to apprehension of servile insurrection.

  • The idea of a civil war, accompanied, as it would be, by a servile insurrection, is too monstrous to be entertained for a moment.

  • One was peaceful and the other mutually destructive of both races by a servile insurrection.

  • To local associations organized by kindly slaveholders there was less opposition because the chief aim always was to restrain strangers and undesirable persons from coming South to incite the Negroes to servile insurrection.

  • By this argument some colonizationists were induced to do more for the general education of the free blacks than they had considered it wise to do during the time of the bold attempts at servile insurrection.

  • When this enlightenment became productive of such disorders that slaveholders lived in eternal dread of servile insurrection, Southern States adopted the thoroughly reactionary policy of making the education of Negroes impossible.

  • The location and the status of some of these Baptist churches will be interesting, especially in the South where their development was retarded by the restrictions of a slaveholding section living in dread of servile insurrection.

  • The greater his influence among the slaves, the more the masters were inclined to believe that his work could result only in that of servile insurrection.

  • The rumor attached to Negro ministers throughout the South the stigma of using preaching as a means to incite their race to servile insurrection.

  • No servile insurrection or tendency to cruelty has marked the measures of emancipation and the arming of the blacks.

  • Their leaders had taught them that the one necessarily involved the other, and that a man who was in favor of the Wilmot Proviso was as bitter an enemy to the South as one who incited a servile insurrection.

  • When in command of the Department of Annapolis, in May, 1861, he was asked to protect a community against the consequences of a servile insurrection.

  • Did you expect to march into that country, drained, as you say it is, by conscription of all its able-bodied white men, without leaving the negroes free to show symptoms of servile insurrection?

  • You say that since the arrival of the negro regiment you have seen symptoms of a servile insurrection.

  • Old John Brown, who did his best to create a servile insurrection at Harper's Ferry, has been canonized through the North and West, to the amazement and horror of the South.

  • Its only immediate result possible would be servile insurrection.

  • Any ordinance of abolition now pronounced would not effect the emancipation of the slaves, but might probably effect a servile insurrection.

  • It is by these laws, that they shut out the colored people of the North, the presence of a single individual of whom so alarms them with the prospect of a servile insurrection, that they immediately imprison him.

  • To him it seemed an incitement to servile insurrection in a region where such an insurrection could not fail to result in unspeakable horrors and calamities.


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