The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Abolitionists |
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... present day ? But though the inequality visible in the different conditions of life , and the passions interwoven into our nature , ( both which have been allotted to us for wise purposes , and without which we could not easily af- ford ...
... present day ? But though the inequality visible in the different conditions of life , and the passions interwoven into our nature , ( both which have been allotted to us for wise purposes , and without which we could not easily af- ford ...
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... present and future condition of man ; to afford the best moral precepts , to commu- nicate the most benign stimulus to the heart , to produce the most blameless conduct , and thus to cut off many of the causes of wretch- edness , and to ...
... present and future condition of man ; to afford the best moral precepts , to commu- nicate the most benign stimulus to the heart , to produce the most blameless conduct , and thus to cut off many of the causes of wretch- edness , and to ...
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... present himself before them , or that , however they might deplore the existence of public evils among them , they joined in associations for their suppression , or that they carried their cha- rity , as bodies of men , into other ...
... present himself before them , or that , however they might deplore the existence of public evils among them , they joined in associations for their suppression , or that they carried their cha- rity , as bodies of men , into other ...
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... presents to us in its three several departments a measure of human suffering not to be equalled - not to be calculated -- not to be described . But would that we could consider this part of the subject as dismissed ! Would that in each ...
... presents to us in its three several departments a measure of human suffering not to be equalled - not to be calculated -- not to be described . But would that we could consider this part of the subject as dismissed ! Would that in each ...
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... present case . Can those have nothing to answer for , who separate the faithful ties which nature and religion have created ? Can their feelings be otherwise than cor- rupted , who consider their fellow - creatures as brutes , or treat ...
... present case . Can those have nothing to answer for , who separate the faithful ties which nature and religion have created ? Can their feelings be otherwise than cor- rupted , who consider their fellow - creatures as brutes , or treat ...
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abolition afterwards Anthony Benezet appeared asked barbarous became become began behalf bill bishop Bristol brought captain cause chief mate Christian circumstances committee concerned consequence consideration considered cruel desired duty England esquire evidence evil favour feelings forerunners and coadjutors gave give Granville Sharp Harry Gandy heard honour human injured Africans inquiry interest island ject John John Woolman labours letter Liverpool London Lord manner manumission mate ment mentioned mind misery muster-rolls natives nature Negros never object occasion oppressed Africans parliament persons Peter Green petitions Pitt planters present privy council procuring promotion purpose Quakers question Ramsay religion religious respect seamen sent ship Sir Charles Middleton Slave-trade slave-vessels slavery slaves Society soon sufferings taken thing thought tion took trade traffic vessels voyage West Indies Wilberforce William Dillwyn wished yearly meeting
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Page 109 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not "blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Page 108 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Page 418 - And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Page 109 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 45 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 53 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 109 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Page 152 - I was so afflicted in my mind, that I said before my master and the Friend that I believed slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet as often as I reflected seriously upon it I thought I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience; for such it was.
Page 419 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.