A history of slavery and its abolitionSunday-School Union, depository, 60, Paternoster Row; and sold by the booksellers, 1836 - Antislavery movements - 634 pages |
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... possessed ; but such instances , however nu- merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , which do not set aside the general rule that fallen man , acquiring absolute power over his natural equais will , in all probability , abuse it ...
... possessed ; but such instances , however nu- merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , which do not set aside the general rule that fallen man , acquiring absolute power over his natural equais will , in all probability , abuse it ...
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... possessed ; but such instances , however nu- merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , which do not set aside the general rule that fallen man , acquiring absolute power over his natural equals will , in all probability , abuse it ...
... possessed ; but such instances , however nu- merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , which do not set aside the general rule that fallen man , acquiring absolute power over his natural equals will , in all probability , abuse it ...
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... possessed ; but such instans , we u merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , vieI do not set aside the general rue that len na acquiring absolute power over i marra eas will , in all probability , abuse it About a hundred and fifty ...
... possessed ; but such instans , we u merous , must be regarded as the exceptions , vieI do not set aside the general rue that len na acquiring absolute power over i marra eas will , in all probability , abuse it About a hundred and fifty ...
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... possessed , not for use , but ostentation , ten thousand and even twenty thousand slaves . Slaves were not esteemed as persons , but as things , and might be transferred from one owner to another , like any other effects . They could ...
... possessed , not for use , but ostentation , ten thousand and even twenty thousand slaves . Slaves were not esteemed as persons , but as things , and might be transferred from one owner to another , like any other effects . They could ...
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... possessing slaves . Their first possession of this kind appears to have been after the wars with Midian . The Midianites were a very wicked people , who seduced . Israel to sin ; and God was pleased , in righteous vengeance , to command ...
... possessing slaves . Their first possession of this kind appears to have been after the wars with Midian . The Midianites were a very wicked people , who seduced . Israel to sin ; and God was pleased , in righteous vengeance , to command ...
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abolition Africa afterwards Ahaz Amalekite Anthony Benezet appears Barbadoes became benevolent bill blessing bondage born brethren British brought called Canaan captain captives carried cause christian Clarkson colonies compelled condition cruel cruelty cultivated death degradation desired Deut died Egypt employed engaged England enslaved evil excited Exod fact favour feeling freedom friends friends of humanity Granville Sharp hand Hispaniola honour humanity idolatry inflicted inhabitants injured instances interest island Israel Israelites Jamaica Jews justice justly king labour land liberal liberty Lord master means ment Midian mind nations native negroes noble object observed obtained occasion oppression parents parliament persons poor possession Poultry Compter principles probably proved punishment purchase religion righteous Roman seized sell sentiments servants Sharp slave-trade slavery slaves society sold spirit suffered thing tion trade traffic villein West Indies whole wicked Wilberforce William Dillwyn wretched
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Page 449 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Page 39 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 97 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 51 - Princes shall come out of Egypt ; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Page 31 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife* and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 449 - Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 107 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Page 65 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast: Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Page 376 - Blessings abound where'er He reigns ; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains ; The weary find eternal rest ; And all the sons of want are blest.
Page 491 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.