A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa: Consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species : to which is Added, A Desultory Letter Written to Napoleon Bonaparte, Anno Domini, 1801author, 1804 - 282 ページ |
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... appears , the pro- priety of them will be sufficiently manifest . Sin- cerely can I say , my great aim is to be use- ful . With this view I have endeavoured to accommodate my poem to the various tastes of the different classes of ...
... appears , the pro- priety of them will be sufficiently manifest . Sin- cerely can I say , my great aim is to be use- ful . With this view I have endeavoured to accommodate my poem to the various tastes of the different classes of ...
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... appear incredible , does not in the least sur- prise me . They really seem almost to exceed belief . Had I not seen with my own eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of ...
... appear incredible , does not in the least sur- prise me . They really seem almost to exceed belief . Had I not seen with my own eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of ...
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... appears , that on some estates the slaves have Sunday and Saturday afternoons to themselves , on others Sunday only , and on others only Sunday in part . It appears again , that in crop on no estates have they more than Sunday for the ...
... appears , that on some estates the slaves have Sunday and Saturday afternoons to themselves , on others Sunday only , and on others only Sunday in part . It appears again , that in crop on no estates have they more than Sunday for the ...
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... appear to have suffered for not coming to the field in time , not picking a sufficient quan- tity of grass , for staying too long of an er- rand , and theft , to which they are often driven by extreme hunger . Under the head of extraor ...
... appear to have suffered for not coming to the field in time , not picking a sufficient quan- tity of grass , for staying too long of an er- rand , and theft , to which they are often driven by extreme hunger . Under the head of extraor ...
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... appears to be , in various in , stances , new . Modes of oppression and punish- ment have been practised in latter times , which seem to have been unknown in former ages . Vain is it to plead , that slavery , among the ancient Jews ...
... appears to be , in various in , stances , new . Modes of oppression and punish- ment have been practised in latter times , which seem to have been unknown in former ages . Vain is it to plead , that slavery , among the ancient Jews ...
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Africans Almighty ANNO DOMINI appear attended authority Babylon barbarities Behold blood blush brutes cause cerning Christendom Christian civil colonies colour commerce conduct crimes cruel cruelty degree despots disgrace dreadful duty earth effects enslaved Europe evil expence eyes fatal favoured favoured nations feel fellow creatures forbear former France French French consul friends friends of humanity gentlemen glory groans hand happy heaven Herodotus honour human nature impunity inhabitants inhuman instances Jamaica Jerusalem Jews Judea labour latter liberty ligion mankind manner master ment mercy mind miseries monster moral murdered Napoleon Bonaparte nation negroes never oppressed oppressors person poem political prosperity punishment Quashi race recollect religion religious render ruin situation slave-trade slavery soul species suffer thee thing thou thousand tical tion tism treated tremble tural tyrants unhappy slaves vengeance West-Indies woes wretched slaves
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