The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Τόμος 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... importance of the subject , I had been deterred : but believing that most readers love the truth , and that it ought to be the object of all writers to promote it , and be- lieving lieving moreover , that I was in possession of more ...
... importance of the subject , I had been deterred : but believing that most readers love the truth , and that it ought to be the object of all writers to promote it , and be- lieving lieving moreover , that I was in possession of more ...
Σελίδα 42
... importance to know . For have they not enabled them to state , that the African Slave - trade never would have been permitted to exist but for the ig- norance of those in authority concerning it - That at its commencement there was a ...
... importance to know . For have they not enabled them to state , that the African Slave - trade never would have been permitted to exist but for the ig- norance of those in authority concerning it - That at its commencement there was a ...
Σελίδα 88
... important services to the op- pressed Africans . For if Christianity , when it began to be felt in the heart , dictated the abolition of slavery , it certainly became those who lived in a Christian country , and who professed the ...
... important services to the op- pressed Africans . For if Christianity , when it began to be felt in the heart , dictated the abolition of slavery , it certainly became those who lived in a Christian country , and who professed the ...
Σελίδα 101
... importance would be increased , and the temporal interest of their masters promoted , by giving them freedom , and by granting them other privileges . showed the great difficulty of instructing them in the state in which they then were ...
... importance would be increased , and the temporal interest of their masters promoted , by giving them freedom , and by granting them other privileges . showed the great difficulty of instructing them in the state in which they then were ...
Σελίδα 123
... importance in the pre- sent history , and in which only individuals belonging to the Society were concerned , This event seems to have arisen naturally out of existing or past circumstances . For the Society , as I have before stated ...
... importance in the pre- sent history , and in which only individuals belonging to the Society were concerned , This event seems to have arisen naturally out of existing or past circumstances . For the Society , as I have before stated ...
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abolition afterwards Anthony Benezet appeared asked barbarous became become began behalf bill bishop 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 injured Africans inquiry interest island ject John John Woolman labours letter Liverpool London Lord manner manumission mate ment mentioned mind misery muster-rolls natives nature Negros never 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 taken thing thought tion took trade traffic vessels voyage West Indies Wilberforce William Dillwyn wished yearly meeting
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Σελίδα 109 - 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...
Σελίδα 108 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Σελίδα 418 - And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 53 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Σελίδα 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. 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.
Σελίδα 152 - I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I believed slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet as often as I reflected seriously upon it I thought I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience; for such it was.
Σελίδα 419 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.