...Johnson, "upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford," had offered the toast: " 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' "5 Johnson deeply resented the clamor of American colonists for freedom as nothing less than revolting...

...always opposed slavery, and once, when he was with "some very grave men at Oxford," his toast had been, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." Boswell professed himself shocked. Johnson's "violent prejudice against our West Indian and American...

...for the sake of a poetic conceit. Far from it. In the Life itself we hear Johnson at Oxford toasting 'here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies' and then, a little later, Boswell the narrator sharply marks his distance from his friend on this issue....

...extensively from Anthony Benezet. Other Englishmen took strong stands. Dr. Samuel Johnson toasted, "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." Even the House of Commons, under Quaker prompting, appointed a commission to look into the slave trade.21...

...wealth' (Bate, 1977, 192-3). Boswell has Johnson startling some 'very grave men at Oxford' with the toast 'here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies' (ibid., p. 194). Boswell's attitude was the routine mercantile self-interested one, dressed up as liberal...

...Johnson was hostile: he stunned 'some very grave men at Oxford', Boswell reports, by proposing the toast: 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies': Hill, Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. iii, p. 200. 124 Vincent Carretta (ed.), Unchained Voices (1996),...

...discovered 'a zeal without knowledge'. Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' Boswell remained a staunch slavery apologist. In this poem he bizarrely combines a love poem to a young...

...all shoulder some blame - affording in turn some 176 prospect of remedy (hence his incendiary toast: 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies'). But most evil was woven into the very fabric of the post-lapsarian world. For Johnson subscribed to...

...firmly and consistently opposed slavery and had once, to Boswell's horror, proposed a toast at Oxford: 'Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' The Atlantic slave trade also benefited other trades and manufactures, as the slaves had to be paid...

...We heve been too quick to forget the horrors which paused Samuel Johnson to give aia famous toast: "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies" (Goldwin Smith, The United Kingdom, vol. n. i, m, 4. Corraption, thus initiated in one part of public...