 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - Biography & Autobiography - 1926 - 356 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal.' I(S As a result of these experiences and many others, Darwin imbibed a detestation of slavery and slaveholders... | |
 | Sandra Harding - Philosophy - 1993 - 548 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. 1 have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip (before 1 could interfere)... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - Nature - 1994 - 484 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...handed me a glass of water not quite clean. ... I was present when a kind-hearted man was on the point of separating forever the men, women, and little... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 910 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...having handed me a glass of water not quite clean. His catalogue of 'heart-sickening atrocities' continued - deeds 'done and palliated by men, who profess... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 500 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a litde boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Religion - 2002 - 234 pages
...would palpitate throughout his life: I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. ... I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...having handed me a glass of water not quite clean. . . . Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children... | |
 | A. N. Wilson - History - 2003 - 778 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal . . . Darwin went on to say that these and similar atrocities took place in a Spanish colony where... | |
 | David W. Shaw - History - 2004 - 256 pages
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...break the spirit of the lowest animal.... I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face.... | |
 | Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - Latin America - 1927 - 824 pages
...lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily...glass of water not quite clean ; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish... | |
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Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of... 
