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 страници |
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... AFRICANS , HAVE DONE IMMORTAL HONOUR TO THEMSELVES - TO HUMA- NITY , AND THE CHRISTIAN NAME , THE FOLLOWING WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , BY THEIR MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . Advertisement . Remarks ...
... AFRICANS , HAVE DONE IMMORTAL HONOUR TO THEMSELVES - TO HUMA- NITY , AND THE CHRISTIAN NAME , THE FOLLOWING WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , BY THEIR MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . Advertisement . Remarks ...
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... himself the merits of the cause will plead his excuse for any literary inaccuracy that may be discovered . It is his wish to represent in its proper colours the complicated villainy of the African slave trade - to put to Advertisement .
... himself the merits of the cause will plead his excuse for any literary inaccuracy that may be discovered . It is his wish to represent in its proper colours the complicated villainy of the African slave trade - to put to Advertisement .
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... African slave trade - to put to the blush hypocritical professors of the Christian re- ligion , who , with impunity make daring innova- tions on the natural privileges and liberties of mankind : finally , he wishes to arise , and to ...
... African slave trade - to put to the blush hypocritical professors of the Christian re- ligion , who , with impunity make daring innova- tions on the natural privileges and liberties of mankind : finally , he wishes to arise , and to ...
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... Africans languish . In the estimation of man- kind , liberty ever is of incalculable value . To men of every country and of every complexion , the yoke of bondage must be galling . The wretch- ed Africans are not merely enslaved ; they ...
... Africans languish . In the estimation of man- kind , liberty ever is of incalculable value . To men of every country and of every complexion , the yoke of bondage must be galling . The wretch- ed Africans are not merely enslaved ; they ...
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... Africans cries from the earth ; and the cry has already ascended to hea- ven . There is a period approaching , at which the Lord shall come to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity ; and then shall the earth disclose ...
... Africans cries from the earth ; and the cry has already ascended to hea- ven . There is a period approaching , at which the Lord shall come to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity ; and then shall the earth disclose ...
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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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