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 |
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... examining it in three points of view : -First , As it has been proved to arise on the continent of Africa in the course of reducing the inhabitants of it to slavery ; — Secondly , In the course of conveying them from thence to the lands ...
... examining it in three points of view : -First , As it has been proved to arise on the continent of Africa in the course of reducing the inhabitants of it to slavery ; — Secondly , In the course of conveying them from thence to the lands ...
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... self in the first of the cases we have noticed . Let us now estimate it as it has been proved to exist in the second ; or let us examine the state state of the unhappy Africans , reduced to slavery in ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE - TRADE . 13.
... self in the first of the cases we have noticed . Let us now estimate it as it has been proved to exist in the second ; or let us examine the state state of the unhappy Africans , reduced to slavery in ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE - TRADE . 13.
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... examined , han- dled , selected , separated , and sold . Alas ! relatives are separated from relatives , as if , like cattle , they had no rational intellect , no power of feeling the nearness of relation- ship , nor sense of the duties ...
... examined , han- dled , selected , separated , and sold . Alas ! relatives are separated from relatives , as if , like cattle , they had no rational intellect , no power of feeling the nearness of relation- ship , nor sense of the duties ...
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... examined there was no counterpart left us to contem- plate ! But this cannot be . For if there be persons , who ... examining this part of it , we shall find that we have a no less frightful picture to behold than in the former cases ...
... examined there was no counterpart left us to contem- plate ! But this cannot be . For if there be persons , who ... examining this part of it , we shall find that we have a no less frightful picture to behold than in the former cases ...
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... examine into the nature of it , or whether we look into the extent of it , or whether we estimate the difficulty of subduing it , we must con- clude that no evil more monstrous has ever existed upon carth . But if so , then we have ...
... examine into the nature of it , or whether we look into the extent of it , or whether we estimate the difficulty of subduing it , we must con- clude that no evil more monstrous has ever existed upon carth . But if so , then we have ...
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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...