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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... 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 .
... 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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... wishes to arise , and to arise with energy - and strive , though he should strive in vain , to oppose this popular corruption which has too long infected the principles of the inhab- itants of Christendom , repugnant to the precepts of ...
... wishes to arise , and to arise with energy - and strive , though he should strive in vain , to oppose this popular corruption which has too long infected the principles of the inhab- itants of Christendom , repugnant to the precepts of ...
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... wish to please . In the cause I have un- dertaken to promote , I glory . On the merits of it I confidently rely . I live in the animating pros- pect of the speedy approach of a period , in which tyranny , of every species , will be seen ...
... wish to please . In the cause I have un- dertaken to promote , I glory . On the merits of it I confidently rely . I live in the animating pros- pect of the speedy approach of a period , in which tyranny , of every species , will be seen ...
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... wish , but , perhaps , wish in vain , that they had listened to the soft , moving , pathetic strains , by which their best friends now endea- vour to reclaim and reform them . Their reco- very , before it be too late , is the object of ...
... wish , but , perhaps , wish in vain , that they had listened to the soft , moving , pathetic strains , by which their best friends now endea- vour to reclaim and reform them . Their reco- very , before it be too late , is the object of ...
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... wish to be sent to the field . The out - door slaves are por- ters , coopers , & c . who are obliged to bring their masters a certain sum every day . The ordinary punishments of the slaves are in- flicted by the whip and cow - skin ...
... wish to be sent to the field . The out - door slaves are por- ters , coopers , & c . who are obliged to bring their masters a certain sum every day . The ordinary punishments of the slaves are in- flicted by the whip and cow - skin ...
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