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, 1801 |
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... appears , the pro- priety of them will be sufficiently manifest . Sin- cerely can I say , my great aim is to be use- ful . With this view I have endeavoured to accommodate my poem to the various tastes of the different classes of ...
... appears , the pro- priety of them will be sufficiently manifest . Sin- cerely can I say , my great aim is to be use- ful . With this view I have endeavoured to accommodate my poem to the various tastes of the different classes of ...
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... appear incredible , does not in the least sur- prise me . They really seem almost to exceed belief . Had I not seen with my own eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of ...
... appear incredible , does not in the least sur- prise me . They really seem almost to exceed belief . Had I not seen with my own eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of ...
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... appears , that on some estates the slaves have Sunday and Saturday afternoons to themselves , on others Sunday only , and on others only Sunday in part . It appears again , that in crop on no estates have they more than Sunday for the ...
... appears , that on some estates the slaves have Sunday and Saturday afternoons to themselves , on others Sunday only , and on others only Sunday in part . It appears again , that in crop on no estates have they more than Sunday for the ...
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... appear to have suffered for not coming to the field in time , not picking a sufficient quan- tity of grass , for staying too long of an er- rand , and theft , to which they are often driven by extreme hunger . Under the head of extraor ...
... appear to have suffered for not coming to the field in time , not picking a sufficient quan- tity of grass , for staying too long of an er- rand , and theft , to which they are often driven by extreme hunger . Under the head of extraor ...
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... appears to be , in various in , stances , new . Modes of oppression and punish- ment have been practised in latter times , which seem to have been unknown in former ages . Vain is it to plead , that slavery , among the ancient Jews ...
... appears to be , in various in , stances , new . Modes of oppression and punish- ment have been practised in latter times , which seem to have been unknown in former ages . Vain is it to plead , that slavery , among the ancient Jews ...
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Page 253 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 160 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Page 144 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 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...
Page 153 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 151 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 272 - I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility. II. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and...
Page 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.