An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African: in Three Parts. Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honored with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 .... With Additions ...N. Wiley, 1804 - 259 страници |
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Страница 198 - Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind : From star to star the mental optics rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, Or with new worlds amaze th
Страница 57 - a numerous class of men, who formerly had no political existence* and were employed merely as instruments of labour, became useful citizens, and contributed towards augmenting the force or riches of the society, which adopted them as members ;" and thus did the greater part of the Europeans, by their conduct on this
Страница 211 - God, who hath made the world, hath made of * one blood all the nations of men that dwell on all the face of the earth.
Страница 68 - know no better than to keep close together in a body. " And not only is the capture of the Hottentots considered by them merely as a party of pleasure, but in cold blood they destroy the bands which nature has knit between
Страница 67 - paces (just as they find it convenient) and charging their heavy fire-arms with a very large kind of shot, jump off their horses, and rest their pieces in their usual manner on their ramrods, in order that they may shoot with the greater certainty; so that the balls discharged by them will sometimes, as
Страница iii - to live in ease and plenty by the toil of those, whom fraud and violence had put into their power
Страница 224 - (the Africans) procreate in America, are not so black as their parents were. After each generation the difference becomes more palpable. It is possible, that after a numerous succession of generations, the men come from Africa would not be distinguished from those of the country, into which they may have been transplanted.
Страница 28 - It was a law, established from time immemorial among the nations of antiquity, to oblige those to undergo the severities of servitude, whom victory had thrown into their hands." Conformably with this, we