...which he took aim at colonial presumption. The work is best remembered for its rebuke of hypocrisy: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" No less revealing is the introductory assault on the entire worldview of the Americans. In contrast...

...slavery as a metaphor for British tyranny. "If slavery be thus fatally contagious," ran the argument, "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" Perhaps, it was suggested, the Revolutionary leaders should decide "that the slaves should be set free,...

...calls for American rights. From England, the literary lion Samuel Johnson posed the obvious question: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Jefferson, indicted by his own soaring rhetoric, might better be described as schizophrenic than hypocritical...

...During the American Revolution, Samuel Johnson had voiced the mind of many puzzled Englishmen by asking, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Recent historians have offered a plausible answer to the riddle of how slaveholders could conceive...

...Foremost among these was Samuel Johnson, who upon reading the Declaration of Independence quipped, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes." Quoted in Albert Boime. "Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters: Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and...

...There's a wonderful saying of Dr Johnson that wise and good man - that I like very much: 'Why,' he asks, 'is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of slaves?' Human Life Review, 1977 Systematically, stage by stage, our way of life had been dismantled,...

...They called for liberty, but already had as much as most English people and, anyway, 'How is it dial we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Wesley read it, fell for it and plagiarized it. He edited it into a pamphlet entitled A Calm Address...

...others. Dr. Johnson's pithy remarks in 1777 on slaveholding American patriots capture this paradox: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Johnson continued his opposition to slavery by observing, "An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty...

...colonists. However, his hatred of hypocrisy led him to make one shrewd hit at the American patriotic case. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"* Johnson hated the institution of slavery and he knew that almost none of the American leaders attacked...

...and gave it a new purpose that it had not possessed before. SLAVERY DEFENDED Liberty for Slaveholders How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 IN THE YEAR 1852, 3. Louisiana cotton farmer named Edwin Epps hired a...