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 |
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... Middle Passage , he had said so much on a former - oc- casion , that he would spare the feelings of the committee as much as he could . He would therefore simply state that the evidence , which was before them , confirmed all those ...
... Middle Passage , he had said so much on a former - oc- casion , that he would spare the feelings of the committee as much as he could . He would therefore simply state that the evidence , which was before them , confirmed all those ...
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... Middle Passage , he believed the mortality there to be on an average only five in the hundred ; whereas in regiments , sent out to the West Indies , the average loss in the year was about ten and a half per cent . The Slave - trade was ...
... Middle Passage , he believed the mortality there to be on an average only five in the hundred ; whereas in regiments , sent out to the West Indies , the average loss in the year was about ten and a half per cent . The Slave - trade was ...
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... Middle Passage . He again stated his abhorrence of the Slave - trade ; but as a resource , though he hoped but a temporary one , it was of such consequence to the existence of the country , that it could not suddenly be withdrawn . The ...
... Middle Passage . He again stated his abhorrence of the Slave - trade ; but as a resource , though he hoped but a temporary one , it was of such consequence to the existence of the country , that it could not suddenly be withdrawn . The ...
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... Middle Passage , they were gross falsehoods ; and as to their treatment in the West Indies , he knew personally that it was , in general , in- dulgent and humane . With regard to promoting their increase by any better mode of treatment ...
... Middle Passage , they were gross falsehoods ; and as to their treatment in the West Indies , he knew personally that it was , in general , in- dulgent and humane . With regard to promoting their increase by any better mode of treatment ...
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... Middle Passage ; but as it would be the most effectual means of ame- liorating the condition of those unhappy persons , who were still to continue slaves in the British colonies . Mr. Mr. Courtenay rose . He said , he could not ...
... Middle Passage ; but as it would be the most effectual means of ame- liorating the condition of those unhappy persons , who were still to continue slaves in the British colonies . Mr. Mr. Courtenay rose . He said , he could not ...
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Page 517 - only lo discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace ' And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; hut torture without end Still urges?
Page 184 - brought us To the man-degrading mart, All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart: % " Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason you 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
Page 183 - screws, Are the means, which duty urges Agents of his will to use ? " Hark ! he answers. Wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder sea with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix.'d their tyrants' habitations Where his whirlwinds answer—No.
Page 182 - Forced from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne ; Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though theirs they have inroll'd me,
Page 184 - 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.
Page 183 - claim; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in black and white the same. " Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant, for which we toil ? Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of
Page 183 - ye masters, iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think, how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords. " Is there, as you sometimes tell us, Is there one, who rules
Page 183 - Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot
Page 184 - By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks received the chain ; By the miseries, which we tasted Crossing, in your barks, the main; By our sufferings^ since you brought us To the man-degrading mart, All
Page 346 - OF THE Africans, excluded, with the most virtuous resolution, the sweets, to which they had been accustomed, from their lips. By the best computation I was able to make from notes taken down in my journey, no fewer than three hundred thousand persons had abandoned the use of sugar. Having travelled over Wales, and two