A history of slavery and its abolitionSunday-School Union, depository, 60, Paternoster Row; and sold by the booksellers, 1836 - 634 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... manumission - Redemption of slaves - Decay of slavery in England - Germany - Poland — Russia - Turkey— Italy - Galley slaves - East Indies 69-98 SECTION X. Negro Slavery - Geography and history of Africa vi CONTENTS .
... manumission - Redemption of slaves - Decay of slavery in England - Germany - Poland — Russia - Turkey— Italy - Galley slaves - East Indies 69-98 SECTION X. Negro Slavery - Geography and history of Africa vi CONTENTS .
Pagina 70
... Italy from France , Switzerland , and Germany , seemed the natural boundary to the Roman empire ; but a spirit of conquest led the armies of Rome to cross this bar- rier , and invade the countries of the barbarians , as they denominated ...
... Italy from France , Switzerland , and Germany , seemed the natural boundary to the Roman empire ; but a spirit of conquest led the armies of Rome to cross this bar- rier , and invade the countries of the barbarians , as they denominated ...
Pagina 93
... Italy . It has been justly remarked , that civil liberty and political influence bare often been con- founded . In ancient reput can states , the idea of " the liberty of a citizen , " always comprehended a participation in the ...
... Italy . It has been justly remarked , that civil liberty and political influence bare often been con- founded . In ancient reput can states , the idea of " the liberty of a citizen , " always comprehended a participation in the ...
Pagina 94
... Italy . All was culti- vated by droves of slaves , whom misfortune alone constrained thus to labour , and who toiled without a hope of recompense . The invasion of the barbarians in a short time caused the disappearance of all the ...
... Italy . All was culti- vated by droves of slaves , whom misfortune alone constrained thus to labour , and who toiled without a hope of recompense . The invasion of the barbarians in a short time caused the disappearance of all the ...
Pagina 95
... Italy , were in the same condition : but free cultivators , com- pelled to acknowledge a German or Scythian master , who was called their host , were strained themselves to learn to work in cultivating land for vineyards and oliveyards ...
... Italy , were in the same condition : but free cultivators , com- pelled to acknowledge a German or Scythian master , who was called their host , were strained themselves to learn to work in cultivating land for vineyards and oliveyards ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abolition Africa afterwards Ahaz Amalekite Anthony Benezet appears Barbadoes became benevolent bill blessing bondage born brethren British brought called Canaan captain captives carried cause christian Clarkson colonies compelled condition cruel cruelty cultivated death degradation desired Deut died Egypt employed engaged England enslaved evil excited Exod fact favour feeling freedom friends friends of humanity Granville Sharp hand Hispaniola honour humanity idolatry inflicted inhabitants injured instances interest island Israel Israelites Jamaica Jews justice justly king labour land liberal liberty Lord master means ment Midian mind nations native negroes noble object observed obtained occasion oppression parents parliament persons poor possession Poultry Compter principles probably proved punishment purchase religion righteous Roman seized sell sentiments servants Sharp slave-trade slavery slaves society sold spirit suffered thing tion trade traffic villein West Indies whole wicked Wilberforce William Dillwyn wretched
Populaire passages
Pagina 449 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Pagina 39 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Pagina 97 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Pagina 51 - Princes shall come out of Egypt ; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Pagina 31 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife* and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Pagina 449 - Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Pagina 107 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Pagina 65 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast: Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Pagina 376 - Blessings abound where'er He reigns ; The prisoner leaps to lose his chains ; The weary find eternal rest ; And all the sons of want are blest.
Pagina 491 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.