Who is to Blame?: Or, Cursory Review of "American Apology for American Accession to Negro Slavery".Smith, Elder & Company, 1842 - 112 páginas |
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... FELLOW MEN , THESE SHEETS ARE DEDICATED , AS A SLIGHT EXPRESSION OF THE HIGHEST VENERATION AND ESTEEM , BY THE SON OF HIS OLDEST SURVIVING FRIEND AND COADJUTOR . Nantes , June 1842 . CURSORY REVIEW . These " If there be , " ΤΟ ...
... FELLOW MEN , THESE SHEETS ARE DEDICATED , AS A SLIGHT EXPRESSION OF THE HIGHEST VENERATION AND ESTEEM , BY THE SON OF HIS OLDEST SURVIVING FRIEND AND COADJUTOR . Nantes , June 1842 . CURSORY REVIEW . These " If there be , " ΤΟ ...
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... fellow - citizens on the 17th of June 1841 , in com- memoration of the battle of Bunker's Hill : - " Let it ever be borne in mind that negro slavery , for the sin and inconsistency of which we were so severely satirized during our war ...
... fellow - citizens on the 17th of June 1841 , in com- memoration of the battle of Bunker's Hill : - " Let it ever be borne in mind that negro slavery , for the sin and inconsistency of which we were so severely satirized during our war ...
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... fellow sectaries in possession of negro slaves , he merely urged them to treat the negroes with gentleness , to afford them education , and after certain years of servitude , " to make them free . * De Foe , though himself a pious man ...
... fellow sectaries in possession of negro slaves , he merely urged them to treat the negroes with gentleness , to afford them education , and after certain years of servitude , " to make them free . * De Foe , though himself a pious man ...
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... fellow- planters . The Trustees refused to hearken to the desire of the petitioners , or to suffer a single slave to enter Georgia ; and firmly persisted in this refusal till the year 1752 , when , disgusted with the languishing ...
... fellow- planters . The Trustees refused to hearken to the desire of the petitioners , or to suffer a single slave to enter Georgia ; and firmly persisted in this refusal till the year 1752 , when , disgusted with the languishing ...
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... fellow men they violated to an extent far transcending any outrage they could impute to Great Britain . Accordingly , with policy more intrepid than honourable , he proposed to de- feat by anticipating the reproaches of mankind , and to ...
... fellow men they violated to an extent far transcending any outrage they could impute to Great Britain . Accordingly , with policy more intrepid than honourable , he proposed to de- feat by anticipating the reproaches of mankind , and to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abolish slavery abolition of slavery admiration allude American Anti-Slavery Societies American pleader American prejudice American writer Anthony Benezet authority avowed behold blacks bondage Britain British crown British Government champion Christian circumstances colonies colonists colour correspondent of Lord corrupted countrymen cruelty degradation dignity divine domestic emancipated enslaved evil exertions existence favour fellow fixed purpose freedom Georgia glory Governor Haiti happiness honour human nature indulgence influence iniquity injustice interesting Jefferson Joseph Sturge justice least less liberal liberty Lord Brougham mankind Maryland masters ment moral mulatto negro labour negro slavery never Northern numerous Oglethorpe Old Bailey oppression oppressor peculiar Pennsylvania planters plea possessed practice profess protested province Quaker racter reason regard revolt from British Rhode Island sanction says sentiment slave-owners slave-trade slaveholders slaveless society soil Southern Sturge subsistence of negro system of negro temptation Thomas Clarkson tion truth tyranny United Virginia virtue yoke
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Página 41 - cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred ' rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who ' never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery ' in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their ' transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium ' of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great ' Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should * be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 45 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Página 39 - But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
Página 39 - If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason, to believe, that the Divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others...
Página 1 - No crime so bold but would be understood A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Página 64 - Justly thou abhorr'st That son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational liberty ; yet know withal, Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinned, and from her hath no dividual being...
Página 41 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Página 61 - Slavery is not a national evil ; on the contrary, it is a NATIONAL BENEFIT. Slavery exists in some form every where, and it is not of much consequence in a philosophical point of view, whether it be voluntary or involuntary. In a political point of view, involuntary slavery has the advantage, since all who enjoy political liberty, are then in fact free.
Página 93 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
Página 87 - Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.