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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... liberty to do what we please ; subvert the gov- ernment , betray our friends , assassinate our pa- rents , and commit the greatest enormities with impunity . For , as an inspired writer speaks , and common sense dictates , where no law ...
... liberty to do what we please ; subvert the gov- ernment , betray our friends , assassinate our pa- rents , and commit the greatest enormities with impunity . For , as an inspired writer speaks , and common sense dictates , where no law ...
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... 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 are , in instances innumerable , oppressed , and ...
... 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 are , in instances innumerable , oppressed , and ...
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... liberty to introduce the following lines from that work . ' Twas now the morning of the fatal day ; The universe in solemn sadness lay , The murmurs of the woodland monsters die , The morning star ascends the glowing sky ; Thro ' all ...
... liberty to introduce the following lines from that work . ' Twas now the morning of the fatal day ; The universe in solemn sadness lay , The murmurs of the woodland monsters die , The morning star ascends the glowing sky ; Thro ' all ...
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... liberty and truth retires . Laurels that should fair Virtue deck alone , To systematic hypocrites are thrown . Their nature , and their nation they disgrace ; And stamp with sable signatures their race . Republicans will suffer in their ...
... liberty and truth retires . Laurels that should fair Virtue deck alone , To systematic hypocrites are thrown . Their nature , and their nation they disgrace ; And stamp with sable signatures their race . Republicans will suffer in their ...
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... liberty , and hu- manity would rejoice ; and a long train of other glorious consequences would follow . The Euro- pean colonies , and even our own southern states , would assume a new appearance . Auspicious change ! May the all - wise ...
... liberty , and hu- manity would rejoice ; and a long train of other glorious consequences would follow . The Euro- pean colonies , and even our own southern states , would assume a new appearance . Auspicious change ! May the all - wise ...
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Страница 145 - 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...
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Страница 151 - ... 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...
Страница 151 - 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.
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Страница 144 - 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.