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 páginas |
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... 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 in B 2 Remarks introductory to the Poem on Slavery.
... 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 in B 2 Remarks introductory to the Poem on Slavery.
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... live better than the ages which are past ? No , this , indeed , is an age of discoveries and scientific improvement . But , at the same time , an age , which , in infidelity , dissipation , and vice , seems to exceed all former times ...
... live better than the ages which are past ? No , this , indeed , is an age of discoveries and scientific improvement . But , at the same time , an age , which , in infidelity , dissipation , and vice , seems to exceed all former times ...
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... live , in a peculiar manner , portentous and eventful ? What mighty revolutions , and wars , and massacres are taking place among the na- tions ? Are not less judgments , in the usual course of providence , the fore - runners of great ...
... live , in a peculiar manner , portentous and eventful ? What mighty revolutions , and wars , and massacres are taking place among the na- tions ? Are not less judgments , in the usual course of providence , the fore - runners of great ...
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... servi- tude and wretchedness , that is no less disgraceful than painful to human nature ; I should only live to be lashed by a guilty conscience ; and , in the end , die under the consuming frowns of heaven , TO THE POEM ON SLAVERY . 27.
... servi- tude and wretchedness , that is no less disgraceful than painful to human nature ; I should only live to be lashed by a guilty conscience ; and , in the end , die under the consuming frowns of heaven , TO THE POEM ON SLAVERY . 27.
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... lives are rendered so wretched , that they not unfrequently 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 ...
... lives are rendered so wretched , that they not unfrequently 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 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.