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" His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius - Σελίδα 204
των Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
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Six Frigates: The Epic History Of The Founding Of The American Navy

Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 σελίδες
...hundred men, women and children, some of whom were his blood relations. As Dr. Samuel Johnson had asked: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" With this in mind, it is hardly surprising to find that Jefferson's words and deeds on the subject...
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Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back ...

Robin Meyers - 2007 - 224 σελίδες
...Americans, in Johnson's eyes, were "thieves" in their relations with indigenous peoples and African slaves. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? ... I am willing to love all mankind, except an American."9 For the same reason that many young people...
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 σελίδες
...rely on such individual motives and goodwill in response to Samuel Johnson's famous jibe at Americans: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Yet owners manumitted a surprisingly large number of slaves during the Revolution or soon after. Even...
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Arthur Riss - 2006
...hypocrisy is, of course, longstanding, instantiated perhaps most memorably by Samuel Johnson's quip: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" See also Barbara J. Fields, "Ideology and Race in American History," in Region, Race, and Reconstruction,...
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Slavery and Resistance

Anne Devereaux Jordan, Virginia Schomp - 2007 - 88 σελίδες
...from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have." The British were only too happy to agree. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" asked British writer Samuel Johnson. A few white colonists responded to these contradictions by calling...
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 σελίδες
...seemed cheap. The American Revolution changed all this. The revolutionaries did not need Dr. Johnson ("How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?") to tell them about the glaring inconsistency between their appeals to liberty and their owning of slaves....
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

Arthur H. Cash - 2006 - 496 σελίδες
...Farringdon Without. Courtesy of Gerald M. Goldberg. from plantations in Antigua. Dr. Johnson famously asked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"2 The next day, Alderman Wilkes, dressed in somber black robes with a long white wig upon...
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Reading the Early Republic

Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 σελίδες
...to justify their rebellion.57 Here, of course, was the answer to Samuel Johnson's celebrated jibe: "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"58 The two greatest discursive productions of the legal mind in America during the Revolutionary...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 278 σελίδες
...with the most liberal politics often have the most illiberal private lives: "how is it," he asked, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" (The chief beneficiary of Samuel Johnson's will was Johnson's Jamaican servant, a former slave.) In...
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Patrons of Enlightenment

Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 σελίδες
...plunder a Plantation. Security and leisure are the parents of sedition.' Johnson found it distasteful that 'we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes' and recommended that the slaves be freed. 'If they are furnished with fire-arms for defence, and utensils...
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