 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to " shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Whatever may have passed elsewhere concerning... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...bondage in their own country, and introduces into a mucli happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Africa - 1922 - 242 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...and introduces into a much happier state of life, D 2 especially now that their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.'... | |
 | Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...would be to ' Shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' " Boswell showed discretion in not putting these arguments, in which a wrong cause finds a beautifully-expressed... | |
 | Walter Garrison Runciman - Social Science - 1983 - 370 pages
...When Boswell sets out the basis of his disagreement with Johnson about the slave trade and argues that 'To abolish that trade would be to ". . . shut the gates of mercy on mankind" ', he is claiming, however implausibly, that 'African Savages' are happier transported to the West... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...fellow-subjects," not merely an assault on a "status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned," but also "extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...and introduces into a much happier state of life." As Boswell poetically concluded, quoting from Gray's Elegy in a breathtaking display of moral earnestness... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - History - 1998 - 678 pages
...only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to African savages; a portion of whom it saves from massacre,...trade, would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind." These changes in the code of morals adopted by society, by no means unsettle my belief in eternal and... | |
 | Hugh Thomas - History - 1997 - 916 pages
...of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of which it saves from massacre or intolerable bondage in their...country; and introduces into a much happier state of life To abolish this trade would be," he added with a surrealistic extravagance, "to shut the gates of mercy... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 306 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...that trade would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind.134 Bernard Martin satirizes the theological dimension of Boswell's argument: Negroes were... | |
 | Neta Crawford - Philosophy - 2002 - 490 pages
...Englishman Boswell said: "To abolish [slavery] . . . would be extreme cruelty to the African savage, a portion of whom it saves from massacre or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduced into a much happier life, especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their... | |
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To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre,... 
