The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, 2. kötetLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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34. oldal
... Islands could exist independently of the Mo- ther - country ; nor were even threats with- held to intimidate government from effect- ing the abolition . From this time , also , the public papers began to be filled with such statements ...
... Islands could exist independently of the Mo- ther - country ; nor were even threats with- held to intimidate government from effect- ing the abolition . From this time , also , the public papers began to be filled with such statements ...
35. oldal
... islands than in their own country . It was contended also , that they were people of very inferior capacities , and but little removed from the brute creation ; whence an inference was drawn , that their treatment , against which so ...
... islands than in their own country . It was contended also , that they were people of very inferior capacities , and but little removed from the brute creation ; whence an inference was drawn , that their treatment , against which so ...
36. oldal
... islands would be the ruin of themselves and of the country . Its revenue would be half annihilated . Its naval strength would decay . Merchants , manufacturers and others would come to beggary . But in this deplorable situation they ...
... islands would be the ruin of themselves and of the country . Its revenue would be half annihilated . Its naval strength would decay . Merchants , manufacturers and others would come to beggary . But in this deplorable situation they ...
37. oldal
... islands had un- dergone . These different statements , appearing now in the public papers from day to day , be- gan , in this early stage of the question , when the subject in all its bearings was known but to few , to make a ...
... islands had un- dergone . These different statements , appearing now in the public papers from day to day , be- gan , in this early stage of the question , when the subject in all its bearings was known but to few , to make a ...
40. oldal
... islands could go on in a flourishing state without supplies from the coast of Africa , but that they were then in a condition to do it . At length , the twelfth of May arrived . Mr. Wilberforce rose up in the Commons ,, and moved the ...
... islands could go on in a flourishing state without supplies from the coast of Africa , but that they were then in a condition to do it . At length , the twelfth of May arrived . Mr. Wilberforce rose up in the Commons ,, and moved the ...
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515. oldal - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
190. oldal - Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
529. oldal - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
188. oldal - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever...
372. oldal - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
189. oldal - Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, Is there One who reigns on high? Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Ask him, if your knotted scourges^ Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means...
189. oldal - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted. Lolling at your jovial boards; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets, your cane affords.
445. oldal - We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements...
448. oldal - ... expected in the state of her inhabitants, is, of all the various and important benefits of the abolition, in my estimation, incomparably the most extensive and important. I shall vote, sir, against the adjournment ; and I shall also oppose to the utmost every proposition which in any way may tend either to prevent, or even to postpone for an hour, the total abolition of the slave trade : a measure which, on all the various grounds which I have stated, we are bound, by the most pressing and indispensable...