The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Abolitionists |
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... gives rise to so many melancholy re- flections . Let us cross yon distant river , and enter into some new domain . But are we relieved even here from afflicting specta- cles ? Look at that immense crowd , which appears to be gathered in ...
... gives rise to so many melancholy re- flections . Let us cross yon distant river , and enter into some new domain . But are we relieved even here from afflicting specta- cles ? Look at that immense crowd , which appears to be gathered in ...
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... give ourselves to repose . But why , when our eyelids are but just closed , do we find ourselves thus suddenly awakened ? What is the meaning of the noise around us , of the trampling of people's feet , of the rustling of the bow , the ...
... give ourselves to repose . But why , when our eyelids are but just closed , do we find ourselves thus suddenly awakened ? What is the meaning of the noise around us , of the trampling of people's feet , of the rustling of the bow , the ...
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... to refuse sustenance and die , or as resolving to break their chains , and , disdaining to live as slaves , to punish their oppressors ? How shall I give an an idea of their agony , when under various punishments 14 THE HISTORY OF THE.
... to refuse sustenance and die , or as resolving to break their chains , and , disdaining to live as slaves , to punish their oppressors ? How shall I give an an idea of their agony , when under various punishments 14 THE HISTORY OF THE.
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... give birth to the enormities , which take place in consequence of the pro- secution of this trade ? Is not that man made morally worse , who is induced to become a tiger to his species , or who , instigated by avarice , lies in wait in ...
... give birth to the enormities , which take place in consequence of the pro- secution of this trade ? Is not that man made morally worse , who is induced to become a tiger to his species , or who , instigated by avarice , lies in wait in ...
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... give one set of men an undue power over another , how quickly they abuse it , —or he never would have found himself obliged in the short space of twenty - five years to undo that which he had countenanced as a great state- measure ...
... give one set of men an undue power over another , how quickly they abuse it , —or he never would have found himself obliged in the short space of twenty - five years to undo that which he had countenanced as a great state- measure ...
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Page 108 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man.
Page 386 - Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head : and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it...
Page 109 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 139 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 53 - Lured by the scent Of steaming crowds, of rank disease and death, Behold ! he rushing cuts the briny flood, Swift as the gale can bear the ship along ; And, from the partners of that cruel trade, Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons, Demands his share of prey ; demands themselves.
Page 154 - I found, from place to place, this uneasiness return upon me, at times, through the whole visit.
Page 109 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Page 108 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 45 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 152 - I was hired by the year, that it was my master who directed me to do it, and that it was an elderly man, a member of our Society, who bought her; so through weakness I gave way, and wrote...