The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Abolitionists |
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... duty of the protection of his subjects , has surrounded them . He is now burning their habitations , and seizing , as saleable booty , the fugitives from the flames . Such then are some of the scenes that have been passing in Africa in ...
... duty of the protection of his subjects , has surrounded them . He is now burning their habitations , and seizing , as saleable booty , the fugitives from the flames . Such then are some of the scenes that have been passing in Africa in ...
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... duties belonging to the ties of life ! We are next to see them la- bouring , and this for the benefit of those , to whom they are under no obligation , by any law either natural or divine , to obey . We are to see them , if refusing the ...
... duties belonging to the ties of life ! We are next to see them la- bouring , and this for the benefit of those , to whom they are under no obligation , by any law either natural or divine , to obey . We are to see them , if refusing the ...
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... duty , seizes his innocent sub- jects , and sells them for slaves ? Are no mo- ral evils produced among those communi- ties , which make war upon other commu- nities for the sake of plunder , and without any previous provocation or ...
... duty , seizes his innocent sub- jects , and sells them for slaves ? Are no mo- ral evils produced among those communi- ties , which make war upon other commu- nities for the sake of plunder , and without any previous provocation or ...
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... duty , when we are commanded to clothe the naked , and feed the hungry , and visit the sick and in prison , in exposing them to want , in torturing them by cruel punishment , and in grinding them down by hard labour , so as to shorten ...
... duty , when we are commanded to clothe the naked , and feed the hungry , and visit the sick and in prison , in exposing them to want , in torturing them by cruel punishment , and in grinding them down by hard labour , so as to shorten ...
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... when good men , whose duty it was to mark him as the object of their destruc- tion , began to assail him , he did not fly , but gnashéd 3 gnashed his teeth at them , growling savagely at the ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE - TRADE . 25.
... when good men , whose duty it was to mark him as the object of their destruc- tion , began to assail him , he did not fly , but gnashéd 3 gnashed his teeth at them , growling savagely at the ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE - TRADE . 25.
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abolition afterwards Anthony Benezet appeared barbarous became began behalf bill Bristol brought captain cause chief mate Christian circumstances committee concerned consequence consideration considered cruel desired duty England esquire evidence evil favour feelings forerunners and coadjutors gave give Granville Sharp Harry Gandy heard honour human impolicy injured Africans inquiry interest island ject John John Woolman labours letter Liverpool London Lord manner manumission mate means ment mentioned mind misery muster-rolls natives nature Negros never Norris object occasion oppressed Africans parliament persons Peter Green petitions Pitt planters present privy council procuring promotion purpose Quakers question Ramsay religion religious respect seamen sent ship Sir Charles Middleton Slave-trade slave-vessels slavery slaves Society soon sufferings thing thought tion took trade traffic usage vessels voyage West Indies Wilberforce William Dillwyn wished yearly meeting
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Page 108 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man.
Page 386 - Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head : and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it...
Page 109 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 139 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 53 - Lured by the scent Of steaming crowds, of rank disease and death, Behold ! he rushing cuts the briny flood, Swift as the gale can bear the ship along ; And, from the partners of that cruel trade, Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons, Demands his share of prey ; demands themselves.
Page 154 - I found, from place to place, this uneasiness return upon me, at times, through the whole visit.
Page 109 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Page 108 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 45 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 152 - I was hired by the year, that it was my master who directed me to do it, and that it was an elderly man, a member of our Society, who bought her; so through weakness I gave way, and wrote...