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 pagini |
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Pagina 19
... eyes , do we recollect our once happy , though homely , abodes ; our near and dear relatives ; our water brooks , our rosy bowers , our vernal groves , our shady woods , and scented meadows . don , O most merciful God , our importunity ...
... eyes , do we recollect our once happy , though homely , abodes ; our near and dear relatives ; our water brooks , our rosy bowers , our vernal groves , our shady woods , and scented meadows . don , O most merciful God , our importunity ...
Pagina 28
... eyes I have seen . If I can do nothing for the relief of my suffering brethren , I am determined , at any rate , to exonerate my own conscience . PRELIMINARY ESSAY ON THE OPPRESSION OF THE EXILED SONS OF 28 REMARKS INTRODUCTORY , & C ..
... eyes I have seen . If I can do nothing for the relief of my suffering brethren , I am determined , at any rate , to exonerate my own conscience . PRELIMINARY ESSAY ON THE OPPRESSION OF THE EXILED SONS OF 28 REMARKS INTRODUCTORY , & C ..
Pagina 30
... eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of such shocking barbarities ; barbarities which debase human nature far beneath the brutal . And what is any thing I have seen ...
... eyes what I am to tell , I probably should have found some difficulty in giving full credit to the report of such shocking barbarities ; barbarities which debase human nature far beneath the brutal . And what is any thing I have seen ...
Pagina 31
... eyes , it had the pearance of a terrestrial Paradise . What lofty trees , crowned with never - fading green ; vernal groves , fragrant flowers , dewy lawns , limpid streams , enchanting landscapes ; and a thousand other beauties ! After ...
... eyes , it had the pearance of a terrestrial Paradise . What lofty trees , crowned with never - fading green ; vernal groves , fragrant flowers , dewy lawns , limpid streams , enchanting landscapes ; and a thousand other beauties ! After ...
Pagina 33
... eye pities ; no hand helps . Into the hold of the vessel they are forced . Their limbs , already wounded and lace- rated , and bloody , are loaded with heavy chains . Such numbers are compressed within so small a space , that the air ...
... eye pities ; no hand helps . Into the hold of the vessel they are forced . Their limbs , already wounded and lace- rated , and bloody , are loaded with heavy chains . Such numbers are compressed within so small a space , that the air ...
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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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.