 | George Cory, Sir George Cory - Africa - 1919 - 550 pages
...the humane.1 He brought the matter before the House CHAP, on May I3th, 1823, when he moved that, "a state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of...ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British Dominions with as much expedition as may be consistent with due regard to the wellbeing of the parties... | |
 | Irving Kaplan - Government publications - 1976 - 362 pages
...was formed in early 1823, and its representatives in Parliament argued that "the state of delivery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies." The abolitionists stressed gradualism... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - Guyana - 1994 - 406 pages
...associate of Wilberforce, had presented a motion to the House of Commons declaring, among other things, "that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...of the Christian religion; and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent... | |
 | Mary Turner - History - 1998 - 240 pages
...Buxton, struck the opening blows in a House of Commons debate on May 15, 1813, with the resolution, "That the state of Slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution and the Christian Religion; and that it ought to be gradually abolished." Gradual abolition was to encompass... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - History - 2001 - 328 pages
...liberals that led the parliamentary leadership to take radical action despite itself. [The motion declared that "the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...constitution and of the Christian religion" and that it should gradually be abolished "with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard... | |
 | Loren Schweninger - African Americans - 2001 - 340 pages
...against slavery. In May 1823, Sir Thomas Buxton (1786-1845) offered a resolution in the House of Commons that "the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian religion." The institution ought to be abolished "with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due... | |
 | John Edwin Mason - History - 2003 - 356 pages
...succeeded Wilberforce as parliamentary leader of the abolitionists, moved a resolution that argued "that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...British Constitution and of the Christian religion" and ought to be abolished "with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...Wilberforce as the abolitionists' leader in Parliament, presented a motion in the House of Commons affirming: That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles...of the Christian religion; and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British Colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent... | |
 | Hugh McLeod - History - 2006 - 748 pages
...William Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Buxton' who, in 1823, declared in the Commons that 'slavery was repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution and of the Christian religion', and therefore had to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions.'4 Emancipation would not... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - Abolitionists - 2007 - 244 pages
...Commons, " declaring that slavery was repugnant to the principles of the 146 British constitution and the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British dominions." But interests here, like Plutoan guards, stood in the way. Mr. Canning's sketch — one... | |
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That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a... 
