A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, Volume 1 |
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... concerning the Slave Trade , on April 2d , 1792 , by the Rev. J. Gisborne.- Much valuable information likewise concerning Africa is contained in Lord Muncaster's Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade . Again , almost all the principal ...
... concerning the Slave Trade , on April 2d , 1792 , by the Rev. J. Gisborne.- Much valuable information likewise concerning Africa is contained in Lord Muncaster's Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade . Again , almost all the principal ...
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... Africa , had opportunities of obtaining useful infor- mation concerning the Slave Trade , consented to be examined . They were indeed little on on shore , and they went to no great distance 14 INTRODUCTION Sources of Information.
... Africa , had opportunities of obtaining useful infor- mation concerning the Slave Trade , consented to be examined . They were indeed little on on shore , and they went to no great distance 14 INTRODUCTION Sources of Information.
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... concerning it's abolition ; men too , whose testimony was the result of their own personal knowledge ; the facts which should be thus proved , would be established by a force of evidence , little short of absolute demonstration . Lastly ...
... concerning it's abolition ; men too , whose testimony was the result of their own personal knowledge ; the facts which should be thus proved , would be established by a force of evidence , little short of absolute demonstration . Lastly ...
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... concerning Africa have since appeared . That of Golberry , was drawn up and published under the patronage of Bonaparte , about the very time when the latter entered on his crusade against the Blacks in St. Domingo ; the Abolitionists ...
... concerning Africa have since appeared . That of Golberry , was drawn up and published under the patronage of Bonaparte , about the very time when the latter entered on his crusade against the Blacks in St. Domingo ; the Abolitionists ...
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... concerning " whom we have no information , they are 66 now every where degenerated into a bru- “ tish , ignorant , idle , crafty , bloody , thiev- " ish , mistrustful , and superstitious people , “ even in those states where we might ex ...
... concerning " whom we have no information , they are 66 now every where degenerated into a bru- “ tish , ignorant , idle , crafty , bloody , thiev- " ish , mistrustful , and superstitious people , “ even in those states where we might ex ...
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Page 380 - ... great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, the rest joining in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 380 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me that I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of the family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Page 382 - On the other hand, as some counterbalance to this depravity in their nature, allowing it to be such, it is impossible for me to forget the disinterested charity, and tender solicitude, with which many of these poor heathens (from the sovereign of Sego, to the poor women. who received me at different times into their cottages when I was perishing of hunger) sympathised with me in my sufferings ; relieved my distresses ; and contributed to my safety.
Page 379 - The view of this extensive city; the numerous canoes upon the river; the crowded population, and the cultivated state of the surrounding country, formed altogether a prospect of civilization and magnificence, which I little expected to find in the bosom of Africa.
Page 380 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that he might graze at liberty, a negro woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me ; and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation.
Page 383 - Strike me," said my attendant, "but do not curse my mother." The same sentiment I found universally to prevail, and observed in all parts of Africa, that the greatest affront which could be offered to a Negro, was to reflect on her who gave him birth.
Page 57 - In general, they are void of genius, and seem almost incapable of making any progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below that of brutes. They have no moral sensations; no taste but for women; gormondizing, and drinking to excess; no wish but to be idle.
Page 58 - At the end of a tortured, negrophobic passage, that shifts anxiously between piety, prevarication, and perversion, the text finally confronts its fear; nothing other than the repetition of its resemblance "in part": (Negroes) are represented by all authors as the vilest of human kind, to which they have little more pretension of resemblance than what arises from their exterior forms...
Page 380 - ... numerous in the neighbourhood, that I should have been under the necessity of climbing up the tree, and resting among the branches. About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose, that...