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Henry S. Bicknell, J. M. French M.D.
The New England Magazine
Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886,
- Bildung
- Englisch
- 40156 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Benjamin Curtis was born November 4, 1809 in Watertown, Massachusetts, the son of Lois Ribbins and Benjamin Curtis, the captain of a merchant vessel. Young Curtis attended common school in Newton and beginning in 1825 Harvard College, where he won an essay writing contest in his junior year. He graduated in 1829, a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3] He subsequently graduated from Harvard Law School in 1831 and was admitted to the bar the following year.
In 1834, he moved to Boston where he joined the law firm of Charles P Curtis Esquire.
In 1836, Curtis participated in the Massachusetts "freedom suit" of Commonwealth v. Aves on behalf of the defendant.[4] When New Orleans resident Mary Slater went to Boston to visit her father, Thomas Aves, she brought with her a young slave girl about six years of age, named Med. While in Boston, Slater fell ill and asked her father to take care of Med until she (Slater) recovered. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and others sought a writ of habeas corpus against Aves, contending that Med became free by virtue of her mistress' having brought her voluntarily into Massachusetts. Aves responded to the writ, answering that Med was his daughter's slave, and that he was holding Med as his daughter's agent. Curtis was one of the attorneys who argued the case on behalf of Aves.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, through its Chief Justice, Lemuel Shaw, ruled that Med was free, and made her a ward of the court. The Massachusetts decision was considered revolutionary at the time. While previous decisions ruled that slaves voluntarily brought into a free state, and who resided there many years, became free, Aves was the first decision which held that a slave voluntarily brought into a free state became free from the first moment of arrival. The decision in this freedom suit engendered controversy and helped to alienate the South. It was in contrast to the Dred Scott decision, in which Curtis participated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.[5]
Curtis became a Harvard Fellow in February 1846. In 1849, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[6] Appointed chairman of a committee to reform state judicial procedures, they presented the Massachusetts Practice Act of 1851. "It was considered a model of judicial reform and was approved by the legislature without amendment."[7] [mehr]
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MAYNE REID
THE BOY TAR
- Drama
- Englisch
- 92099 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [mehr]
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CAPTAIN MAYNE REID
THE BOY HUNTERS
- Abenteuer
- Englisch
- 91384 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [mehr]
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U. S. GRANT, W. T. SHERMAN
MEMOIRS OF THREE CIVIL WAR GENERALS
- Historisches
- Englisch
- 852146 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 3
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He then implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.
Grant graduated in 1843 from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican–American War. When the Civil War began in 1861, he rejoined the U.S. Army. In 1862, Grant took control of Kentucky and most of Tennessee, and led Union forces to victory in the Battle of Shiloh, earning a reputation as an aggressive commander. He incorporated displaced African American slaves into the Union war effort. In July 1863, after a series of coordinated battles, Grant defeated Confederate armies and seized Vicksburg, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River and dividing the Confederacy in two. After his victory in the Chattanooga Campaign, President Abraham Lincoln promoted him to lieutenant general and commander of all the Union Armies. Grant confronted Robert E. Lee in a series of bloody battles in 1864, trapping Lee's army at Petersburg, Virginia. During the siege, Grant coordinated a series of devastating campaigns in other theaters. The war ended shortly after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Historians have hailed Grant's military genius, and his strategies are featured in the military history textbooks, but a minority contend that he won by brute force rather than superior strategy.[1]
After the Civil War, Grant led the Army's supervision of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states. He was elected president in 1868 and reelected in 1872. Grant stabilized the nation during the turbulent Reconstruction period, enforced civil and voting rights laws, and destroyed the Ku Klux Klan. He used the army to build the Republican Party in the South, based on black voters, Northern newcomers ("Carpetbaggers"), and native Southern white supporters ("Scalawags"); combined with the disenfranchisement of some former Confederates, this led to Republican rule and the election of African-Americans to Congress and high state offices. In his second term, the Republican coalitions in the South fell apart as conservative white Democrats regained control of Southern states through terror and disenfranchisement of black Southerners. Grant's Indian peace policy initially reduced frontier violence, but after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, the Great Sioux War culminated in George Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Throughout his presidency, Grant faced Congressional investigations into federal corruption, including bribery charges against two of his Cabinet members. Grant's econom [mehr]
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Santosh Jha
Happiness Is A Scam
- Psychologie
- Englisch
- 35474 Wörter
- Ab 16 Jahren
- 242
- 1
Nature installs happy life, evolution seeks happy creatures, brain makes happy hormones, people always chase happiness and cultures work overtime manufacturing happy consumptions, still; happiness is elusive, ephemeral. Why? It is nature’s trap; a scam people live out, unaware. It breeds all criminality, depravity; kills sanity. The eBook busts the scam; paves way for alternative intentionality.
Evolution may be a stupid engineering but it put in place a happy mechanism for all living beings, with entrenched processes. Human ingenuity forced evolution to accept retirement. Then, it turned the mechanism of happiness; processes of reward and success into scams; brutally uploading man-made Intentionality of criminality, depravity over nature’s innocuous intelligence. Happiness stands hijacked.
The innate design of nature, which evolved the idea and cognition of happiness in organisms, seeded the lateral and concomitant emotion of competitiveness. This however happened, much before humans happened on Earth. Competitiveness to optimize happiness, and in turn optimize survival-successes, through the chemical expressions of reward and punishment worked reasonably well in animal world and therefore it continued into human system. Competitiveness is not a criminal intent or idea. The innocuous cognition of competitiveness could be turned into a theme of criminality and depravity only by extraordinary human intelligence of faking and fudging. Happiness got hijacked as humans evolved this novel intelligence to fake, fudge, fabricate, fictionalize, and defraud intentionality. Languages happened and they became big tools to deception and depravity. We need to accept that Happiness has to be our internal landscape and milieu; it is in essence, an internal body-brain process of optimizing knowledge and awareness of self, vis-à-vis the external milieus. This in truest sense has always been hailed as the centrality of intentionality of all religions and spiritualism. Scams however hit them the worst. Externalizing Happiness; aligning happiness with attainments and possessions of entities in external milieus, criminalizes and depraves happiness. It has somehow become the nature’s trap; humanity has not only become slaves to but also used it to scam others and self. Nature wants us to be happy organisms and for that it installed chemically mediated and subconsciously orchestrated intentionality of reward and pleasurable successes. It instituted the habit-forming chemical plexus to remain aligned to rewarding and happy ways, which in turn required competitiveness. This innate intelligence has now been hijacked by human intelligence and as this competitiveness has become unmanageable in extremely over-populated and monstrously unequal society-culture-polity-economy; success and reward feelings have to be in connivance of depravity, cruelty, criminality and deception to attain probability. Society, cultures, polity, faith systems, economy, commerce, relationships, et al, have all become hugely corrupted, criminalized and unashamedly fake and deceptive. Everyone seems to have fallen into this trap and we all are living out a scam of reality. Human world cannot have benchmarks of animals. Humans definitively need an alternative and novel reward-regime to qualify as humans. They need compassion, fraternity, equitability, knowledge, amicability as benchmarks; instead of reward, pleasure and successes. This scam needs to be weeded out of human world. Collective spaces are beyond redemption. However, an individual sure can de-scam his or her Consciousness to embark on the journey of true and real happiness. This can happen when a person is truly aware and knowledgeable of not only realities but also the mechanism and processes of realities. The usual subconscious and perceptional life-living cannot help one come out of the scam of happiness and other perceptions. This is what this eBook humbly seeks. You have the potential; the probability awaits you. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Happiness, Emotions, Homeostasis, Intentionality, Consciousness, Criminality, Scam, Hormones, Wellness, Evolution, Nature, Intelligence.
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Harriet Jacobs
The Life of a Slave Girl
- Historisches
- Englisch
- 81358 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 295
- 3
I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to work at his trade, and manage his own affairs. His strongest wish was to purchase his children; but, though he several times offered his hard earnings for that purpose, he never succeeded. In complexion my parents were a light shade of brownish yellow, and were termed mulattoes. They lived together in a comfortable home; and, though we were all slaves, I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment. I had one brother, William, who was two years younger than myself—a bright, affectionate child.
Such were the unusually fortunate circumstances of my early childhood. When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. My mother's mistress was the daughter of my grandmother's mistress. She was the foster sister of my mother; they were both nourished at my grandmother's breast. In fact, my mother had been weaned at three months old, that the babe of the mistress might obtain sufficient food. They played together as children; and, when they became women, my mother was a most faithful servant to her whiter foster sister. On her death-bed her mistress promised that her children should never suffer for any thing; and during her lifetime she kept her word. They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.
Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slaveholders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own, I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep me with my friend Mrs. Bruce. Love, duty, gratitude, also bind me to her side. It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children.
It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with those gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light, fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea. [mehr]
Stichwörter: incidents in the, life of a slave girl, biography, autobiopraphy, memior, an american slave, american slavery, american history, slave history us history
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