The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Abolitionists |
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... motion , by means of which the great day of trial was now fixed , seemed to be the signal for the planters , merchants , and other interested persons to begin a furious opposi- tion . Meeting's were accordingly called by advertisement ...
... motion , by means of which the great day of trial was now fixed , seemed to be the signal for the planters , merchants , and other interested persons to begin a furious opposi- tion . Meeting's were accordingly called by advertisement ...
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... motions having been severally agreed to , the house immediately resolved itself into a committee of the whole house , and Sir William Dolben was put into the chair . Mr. Wilberforce began by declaring , that , when he considered how ...
... motions having been severally agreed to , the house immediately resolved itself into a committee of the whole house , and Sir William Dolben was put into the chair . Mr. Wilberforce began by declaring , that , when he considered how ...
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... motion he meant to offer was as reconcileable to political expediency as to national humanity . It belonged to no party - question . It would in the end be found serviceable to all parties ; and to the best interests of the country . He ...
... motion he meant to offer was as reconcileable to political expediency as to national humanity . It belonged to no party - question . It would in the end be found serviceable to all parties ; and to the best interests of the country . He ...
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... motion to pledge the house to the repay- ment of this sum , before he had brought forward his propositions . Compensation ought to have been agreed upon as a previ- ously necessary measure . The latter said , that in consequence of the ...
... motion to pledge the house to the repay- ment of this sum , before he had brought forward his propositions . Compensation ought to have been agreed upon as a previ- ously necessary measure . The latter said , that in consequence of the ...
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... motion . It was in their nature not to remain passive and unemployed . They would soon turn them into other channels . This they had done themselves during the American war ; for the Slave - trade was then almost wholly lost , and yet ...
... motion . It was in their nature not to remain passive and unemployed . They would soon turn them into other channels . This they had done themselves during the American war ; for the Slave - trade was then almost wholly lost , and yet ...
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Page 515 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page 190 - Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Page 529 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 188 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever...
Page 372 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 189 - Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, Is there One who reigns on high? Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Ask him, if your knotted scourges^ Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means...
Page 189 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted. Lolling at your jovial boards; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets, your cane affords.
Page 445 - We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements...
Page 448 - ... expected in the state of her inhabitants, is, of all the various and important benefits of the abolition, in my estimation, incomparably the most extensive and important. I shall vote, sir, against the adjournment ; and I shall also oppose to the utmost every proposition which in any way may tend either to prevent, or even to postpone for an hour, the total abolition of the slave trade : a measure which, on all the various grounds which I have stated, we are bound, by the most pressing and indispensable...