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Palfrey was determined that his portion of the slaves be converted to wage laborers during the transition period before emancipation.
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When he heard of his brothers' anger, Palfrey was still hopeful that they could be persuaded to accept his notion of paying wages.
In rejecting any claim to the value of the slave property, Palfrey was giving up close to $7,000.
When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.
Palfrey was also concerned about the question of what wage to pay for their labor throughout 1844.
The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.
Palace House was featured in the 2005 comedy-drama film Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont starring Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend.
She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
On November 14, 2011, John G. Palfrey, Jr., Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, was named the 15th Head of School.
The narrative poem The Palfrey was published in 1842.
Livingston was succeeded by David Vitter -- who later went on to become the first popularly elected Republican Senator from Louisiana and subsequently admitted to being involved in a prostitution ring run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey -- and Bobby Jindal, who later became Governor of Louisiana.
In 1998 she was awarded the Sarah Palfrey Danzig Trophy for character, sportsmanship, manners, spirit of cooperation and contribution to the growth of the game, as well as the help she rendered not only to players of her own class but also to players of a lesser class and to junior players.
The first novel of the Dr. Palfrey 34-book series was Traitor's Doom, published in 1942 by John Long Ltd., while the last was The Whirlwind in 1979.
From September to December 2011, Palfrey was executive director of Michelle Obama's Let's Move!
Bowrey was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and received the Sarah Palfrey Danzig Award in 1997.
Palfrey was one of the founders of The Digital Public Library of America and has served as the chair of its Steering Committee since that organization's inception in 2010.
Palfrey was one of the lawyers, along with Prof. William W. Fisher and the law firm Jones Day, on the pro bono team that defended the artist Shepard Fairey in his lawsuit with the Associated Press relating to the iconic " Hope " poster depicting then-Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign.
On November 14, 2011 Palfrey was named the fifteenth head of school of Phillips Academy.
Palfrey and slaves
Despite Giffen's warning, Palfrey still had plans for freeing his slaves in Louisiana.
His brothers' anger caused Palfrey genuine concern, for he had imposed a dual mission upon himself: to free his slaves, and to keep the family from falling apart over the issue.
Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.
From Cambridge, Palfrey maintained a close interest in the welfare of his slaves.
Palfrey and be
Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.
Over the next several weeks, Palfrey proves to be an apt pupil in learning various ploys to gain the upper hand.
Palfrey and during
Their actions featured in a series of Newsnight programmes shown both during the deployment and after their return, which focused on OMLT 2 in Sangin under Maj Rob Palfrey.
Palfrey and before
In the 1998 World Championship, Scholten reached the semi finals, beating fellow Dutchman Co Stompé, American Roger Carter and then Palfrey once more before losing to Burnett.
Palfrey and emancipation
Nevertheless, Palfrey arranged a religious ceremony at King's Chapel to formalize the emancipation.
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Knowing the antipathy that existed in Louisiana against increasing the number of free Negroes, Giffen suggested that Palfrey bring them to Boston at once, and then send them on to Liberia.
If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.
Palfrey petitioned the state legislature to waive the requirement.
When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.
In view of these difficulties, Palfrey decided to go to Louisiana.
During his journey Palfrey stopped off to see two abolitionists.
She agreed to take charge of five or six of the Negroes should Palfrey decide to send them north immediately.
At Lexington, Kentucky, Palfrey consulted with Cassius M. Clay on the same subject, but with no apparent result.
Palfrey had already made up his mind that he would allow the men, but not the women, to choose freely whether or not to go North for freedom.
Only one objected, but Palfrey soon convinced him that he ought to go with the others.
Palfrey returned to Massachusetts greatly relieved to have made an arrangement `` so satisfactory to my judgment & my conscience ''.
On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.
Palfrey tried fruitlessly to place a Negro boy in the Hopedale Community, but he had better luck in his other attempts.
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Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
He was determined to spend an industrious summer.
Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.
To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.
It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.
The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.
The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.
By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.
The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.
In the liquid phase runs the amount of carbon tetrachloride in each reaction tube was determined by weighing the tube before opening and weighing the fragments after emptying.
The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.
0.169 seconds.