Report of the Committee of the African Institution, Τόμος 1Ellerton and Henderson, 1811 |
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Σελίδα 22 - her utmost distress, was, that the poor boy, in the course of his blameless life, had never told a lie*." That colonial slavery has generated most of those vices which are alleged in its excuse, was felt, and is distinctly admitted, by Mr. Edwards; and this is a fact which he was very competent to ascertain ; for he had seen multitudes of
Σελίδα 34 - withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation; without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted and favoured by
Σελίδα 5 - of information among the natives of that country. 8. To employ suitable agents and to establish correspondences as shall appear advisable, and to encourage and reward individual enterprize and exertion in promoting any of the purposes of the Institution.
Σελίδα 42 - lawful authority to punish crimes, and never possessed a military force which could overawe the turbulent. Yet if the course of events at Sierra Leone be compared with the conduct of the first European settlers in the Antilles and on the American continent, whether English, French, or Spaniards, the result will be highly advantageous to the African character.
Σελίδα 26 - their own indolence or prejudices, than on those of their civilized neighbours. By methods which cannot now be detailed, but which may well merit future attention, several tribes of Indians bordering on the United States have been brought to exchange their
Σελίδα 20 - in St Domingo, that if to such physical powers intellectual culture were added, the Negroes might conquer the world*. But we might appeal also to other hostile testimony, which is less inconsistent with
Σελίδα 32 - He afterwards enumerates manufactories of leather, iron, and other commodities, in which the Negroes have arrived at considerable skill, though with very imperfect implements. But your Committee will add one more extract from the same writer, which furnishes strong matter of excitement to such benevolent attempts as we have associated to recommend and promote.
Σελίδα 50 - upon her, and to teach her the use of her liberated faculties; and we may soon discover, by our own happy experience, that in exercising justice and benevolence towards her, whatever may be the apparent sacrifice, we have only been laying a more solid foundation for the enlargement of our own national prosperity.
Σελίδα 24 - become an inexplicable paradox how men who were once in a barbarous state, like our ancestors, should ever have been raised from it. But indolence is a disease which it is the business of civilization to cure. The motives and the means of industry must be supplied, before men can begin to be
Σελίδα 18 - They have denied that the Negro possesses either the feelings, or the moral or intellectual capacity of a human being. Yet here their testimony has proved to be not a little discordant; so that, with a moderate allowance for the ordinary effects of oppression, the character of the Negro might be vindicated by the admissions or