...Revolution, Dr. Samuel Johnson, the English literary figure, chided the rebellious colonists by asking, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"31 Unfortunately, there were no comfortable answers to the question. The American revolutionaries...

...already perceived the equivocation in liberalism, was unmerciful in underlining this moral ambiguity: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"44 Ambiguity and contradiction pile on top of contradiction and ambiguity: it was the future...

...always been clamorous. Of American revolutionaries, the English Tory Samuel Johnson asked how it was that "we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"1 In the early national period, individuals such as New York's "industrious mechanic," seeking...

...guarded apology for having advised so disastrous an attack. PART TWO 8 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?' Samuel Johnson On the last day of November 1774, Tom Paine, then aged thirtyeight, 'an ingenious, worthy...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...British powerful rhetorical and military weapons against them during the war. Samuel Johnson chided, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" More dangerous to the American cause were the British offers of freedom to slaves. In 1775, Lord Dunmore,...

...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...