Africans
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
negro · the African · the Africans
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
People cited for worshipping their own form of Jupiter, Jupiter Hammon.
And indeed we have one Jupiter of the Capitol, the Africans another, Jupiter Hammon.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
People of African descent whose legal status as slaves is the central subject of the argument.
It is true we have, in our practice, been so unjust as to withhold the benefits of this truth from a certain class of our fellow-men.
And it was not until seventy-eight years more, (an hundred and twenty-eight years in all,) that any act was passed that would cover the case of the Africans generally, and make them slaves.
But no class of Africans “imported,” were known as “servants,” as distinguished from Africans generally, or in any manner to bring them within the legal description of “servants,” as here used.