A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, Band 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 200 Seiten |
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... first produced by laying open the horrors of the Slave Trade , has been consi- derably effaced , but by the prodigious events of that fearful interval . It should also be remembered , that , within the last fourteen or fifteen years , a ...
... first produced by laying open the horrors of the Slave Trade , has been consi- derably effaced , but by the prodigious events of that fearful interval . It should also be remembered , that , within the last fourteen or fifteen years , a ...
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... West Indies , the improvement of which is the great object of the Abolitionists . On the contrary , from first to last , I desire it may be borne in mind , that Africa is the primary primary subject of our regard . It is the effects 10.
... West Indies , the improvement of which is the great object of the Abolitionists . On the contrary , from first to last , I desire it may be borne in mind , that Africa is the primary primary subject of our regard . It is the effects 10.
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... first view might therefore ap-- pear to lie open to our inquiries . Africa , it must be remembered , is a country which has been very little visited from mo- tives of curiosity . It has been frequented , almost exclusively , by those ...
... first view might therefore ap-- pear to lie open to our inquiries . Africa , it must be remembered , is a country which has been very little visited from mo- tives of curiosity . It has been frequented , almost exclusively , by those ...
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... first the same lively sympathy , as some others of it's more direct outrages , on the comforts of domestic or the peace of social life , will yet , in the deliberate judg- ment of a considerate mind , appear on re- flection to be of ...
... first the same lively sympathy , as some others of it's more direct outrages , on the comforts of domestic or the peace of social life , will yet , in the deliberate judg- ment of a considerate mind , appear on re- flection to be of ...
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... first abolish the Slave Trade before we attempt to diffuse among the Africans the lessons of peace and love ; lest we are asked the same well - known question , and receive the same reply , as the Spanish priest from the poor dying ...
... first abolish the Slave Trade before we attempt to diffuse among the Africans the lessons of peace and love ; lest we are asked the same well - known question , and receive the same reply , as the Spanish priest from the poor dying ...
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Seite 380 - ... great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Seite 380 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me that I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of the family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Seite 382 - On the other hand, as some counterbalance to this depravity in their nature, allowing it to be such, it is impossible for me to forget the disinterested charity, and tender solicitude, with which many of these poor heathens (from the sovereign of Sego, to the poor women. who received me at different times into their cottages when I was perishing of hunger) sympathised with me in my sufferings ; relieved my distresses ; and contributed to my safety.
Seite 379 - The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Seite 380 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that he might graze at liberty, a negro woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me ; and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation.
Seite 383 - Strike me," said my attendant, "but do not curse my mother." The same sentiment I found universally to prevail, and observed in all parts of Africa, that the greatest affront which could be offered to a Negro, was to reflect on her who gave him birth.
Seite 57 - In general, they are void of genius, and seem almost incapable of making any progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below that of brutes. They have no moral sensations; no taste but for women; gormondizing, and drinking to excess; no wish but to be idle.
Seite 58 - At the end of a tortured, negrophobic passage, that shifts anxiously between piety, prevarication, and perversion, the text finally confronts its fear; nothing other than the repetition of its resemblance "in part": (Negroes) are represented by all authors as the vilest of human kind, to which they have little more pretension of resemblance than what arises from their exterior forms...
Seite 380 - ... numerous in the neighbourhood, that I should have been under the necessity of climbing up the tree, and resting among the branches. About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that...