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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... observations for two or three months , and then report what he had seen and heard ; so that we might have some one to counteract any false statement of things which might be made relative to the subject in that quarter . At length the ...
... observations for two or three months , and then report what he had seen and heard ; so that we might have some one to counteract any false statement of things which might be made relative to the subject in that quarter . At length the ...
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... Observations on the Slave - trade by Mr. Wadstrom ; and Dickson's Letters on Slavery . These were all new publications . To those they added others of less note , with new editions of the old . They voted their thanks to the reverend Mr ...
... Observations on the Slave - trade by Mr. Wadstrom ; and Dickson's Letters on Slavery . These were all new publications . To those they added others of less note , with new editions of the old . They voted their thanks to the reverend Mr ...
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... observations . If we looked into the reign of Henry the Eighth , we should find a parallel for one of them . We should find that similar convictions took place ; and that penalties followed convic- tion . With respect to wars , the ...
... observations . If we looked into the reign of Henry the Eighth , we should find a parallel for one of them . We should find that similar convictions took place ; and that penalties followed convic- tion . With respect to wars , the ...
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... observe that our own countrymen were often guilty . He would only at present advert to the tragedy at Ca- labàr , where two large African villages , having been for some time at war , made peace . This peace was to have been ratified by ...
... observe that our own countrymen were often guilty . He would only at present advert to the tragedy at Ca- labàr , where two large African villages , having been for some time at war , made peace . This peace was to have been ratified by ...
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... observed with respect to food , that instru- ments were sometimes carried out , in order to force them to eat ; which was the same sort of proof , how much they enjoyed themselves in this instance also . With respect to their singing ...
... observed with respect to food , that instru- ments were sometimes carried out , in order to force them to eat ; which was the same sort of proof , how much they enjoyed themselves in this instance also . With respect to their singing ...
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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...