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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... latter is whol- ly comprehended in the former . If on the con- trary , honour , the criterion of laudable and cul- pable actions , be not a law , it is of no force ; we are under no restriction , but have an unbounded liberty to do what ...
... latter is whol- ly comprehended in the former . If on the con- trary , honour , the criterion of laudable and cul- pable actions , be not a law , it is of no force ; we are under no restriction , but have an unbounded liberty to do what ...
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... latter the soul . Is the soul of far greater va- lue than the body ? Then the plagues which are fatal to it are more to be deprecated than those which hurt the mortal body . In what age , and in what country , had infidelity ever a more ...
... latter the soul . Is the soul of far greater va- lue than the body ? Then the plagues which are fatal to it are more to be deprecated than those which hurt the mortal body . In what age , and in what country , had infidelity ever a more ...
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... latter . To contribute my mite towards the suppress- ing of the growing and alarming evils of these times ; especially that injustice and oppression , which one part of the human race suffer from another , of which I have had the ...
... latter . To contribute my mite towards the suppress- ing of the growing and alarming evils of these times ; especially that injustice and oppression , which one part of the human race suffer from another , of which I have had the ...
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... latter utterly disqualifies a person for the former . Were near relatives sold to one master , and permitted , during their captivity , to enjoy each other's com- pany and friendship ; this circumstance would be no inconsiderable ...
... latter utterly disqualifies a person for the former . Were near relatives sold to one master , and permitted , during their captivity , to enjoy each other's com- pany and friendship ; this circumstance would be no inconsiderable ...
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... latter commit depredations . Are they , on this account , tor- tured ? No ; far less put to death . There are not wanting instances , in which planters have given orders to their watchmen , not to bring home slaves they might find ...
... latter commit depredations . Are they , on this account , tor- tured ? No ; far less put to death . There are not wanting instances , in which planters have given orders to their watchmen , not to bring home slaves they might find ...
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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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160 ページ - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
144 ページ - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
145 ページ - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there ; and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces ; and her time is near to come, and her days...
153 ページ - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
151 ページ - ... eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave...
151 ページ - And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
151 ページ - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
272 ページ - I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility. II. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and...
144 ページ - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.