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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... persons capable of giving it to our advantage , to whom I could get no introduction . I had to go after these many miles out of my established route . Not knowing me , they received me coldly , and even suspiciously ; while I fell in ...
... persons capable of giving it to our advantage , to whom I could get no introduction . I had to go after these many miles out of my established route . Not knowing me , they received me coldly , and even suspiciously ; while I fell in ...
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... person was giving me , he became evi- dently embarrassed and frightened . He began to excuse himself from staying , by alleging that he had nothing more to com- municate , and he took himself away as quickly as he could with decency ...
... person was giving me , he became evi- dently embarrassed and frightened . He began to excuse himself from staying , by alleging that he had nothing more to com- municate , and he took himself away as quickly as he could with decency ...
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... persons who had a competent knowledge of this trade , I would talk with them upon it as upon any ordinary subject ... person among their re- lations or friends , who could apply to them for this purpose with the least hazard of a refusal ...
... persons who had a competent knowledge of this trade , I would talk with them upon it as upon any ordinary subject ... person among their re- lations or friends , who could apply to them for this purpose with the least hazard of a refusal ...
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... persons , who were capable of promoting the cause by their evidence , I could only prevail upon nine , by all the in- terest I could make , to be examined . On my return to London , whither I had been been called up by the committee to ...
... persons , who were capable of promoting the cause by their evidence , I could only prevail upon nine , by all the in- terest I could make , to be examined . On my return to London , whither I had been been called up by the committee to ...
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... persons to them to ex- amine , in comparison with our opponents , and we had yet eighteen to introduce : for answers had come into my tables of questions from several places , and persons had been pointed out to us by our cor ...
... persons to them to ex- amine , in comparison with our opponents , and we had yet eighteen to introduce : for answers had come into my tables of questions from several places , and persons had been pointed out to us by our cor ...
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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...