 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 pages
...Britain, were formerly an established article in our exports. 'Great numbers,' says the historian, ' were exported like cattle, from the British coast,...to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market.'* Now only imagine, if you can conceive of a Roman so unwise, imagine how conclusive would be the argument... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...Henry's History of Great Britain, were formerly an established article of our exports. " Great uumjers," he says, " were exported, like cattle, from the British coast, and were to be seen exposed for sale m the Roman market." — " Adultery, witchcraft, and debt," says the same historian, " were probably... | |
 | Edward Eliot - Slavery - 1833 - 266 pages
...established article of our exports. Great numbers were exported like cattle from the British coasts, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market. Why might not some Roman There is a people that will never rise to civilization : there is a people... | |
 | Edward Eliot - 1833 - 262 pages
...established article of our exports. Great numbers were exported like cattle from the British coasts, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market. Why might not some Roman There is a people that will never rise to civilization : there is a people... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 644 pages
...remembrance, when human sacrifices, and even this very practice of the Slave Trade existed in our own island. Slaves, as we may read in HENRY'S History of Great...and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman markets." — "Adultery, witchcraft, and debt," says the same historian, " were probably some of the... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - Slavery - 1846 - 526 pages
...quoting Henry's History of Great Britain, has this passage, " Great numbers were exported like cattle, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market." Before the Congress of European Sovereigns at Vienna and Aix-la-Chapellet there were 49,000 white slaves... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - Slavery - 1846 - 538 pages
...quoting Henry's History of Great Britain, has this passage, " Great numbers were exported like cattle, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market." Before the Congress of European Sovereigns at Vienna and Aix-la-Chapelle, there were 49,000 white slaves... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - Great Britain - 1852 - 322 pages
...Africa for ever from all possibility of improvement, we ourselves might, in like manner, have beeu proscribed and for ever shut out from all the blessings...to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market." And the historian tells you that " adultery, witchcraft and debt were probably some of the chief sources... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...once prevailed among us. Slaves were formerly an established article of our exports. Great numbers were exported, like cattle, from the British coast,...were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market. The circumstances that furnished the alleged proofs that Africa labors under a natural incapacity for... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...once prevailed among us. Slaves were formerly an established article of our exports. Great numbers were exported, like cattle, from the British coast, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Itoman market. The circumstances that furnished the alleged proofs that Africa labors under a natural... | |
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Sir, which it may be fit sometimes to revive in the remembrance of our countrymen, when even human sacrifices are said to have been offered in this island. But I would peculiarly observe on this day, for it is a case precisely in point, that the very... 
