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 2
... treated , and put to death , because their parents or their priests think it will please their idol gods . " - " Should not happy English children try to help the poor heathen children ? " " Yes : we should send them the Bible , and ...
... treated , and put to death , because their parents or their priests think it will please their idol gods . " - " Should not happy English children try to help the poor heathen children ? " " Yes : we should send them the Bible , and ...
Pagina 8
... treat them if they should refuse . Who chose the master , or the employ- ment ? Did the little slave ? No : he was born in slavery . Did his parents ? No : the master got possession of them ; and , however much they may dislike him , or ...
... treat them if they should refuse . Who chose the master , or the employ- ment ? Did the little slave ? No : he was born in slavery . Did his parents ? No : the master got possession of them ; and , however much they may dislike him , or ...
Pagina 9
... treated with justice and huma nity by inferior ofcers . In a land of Icerty , there is no such thing known , as “ the entire sub- jection of one human being to the will of another ; " there is no slavery ! SECT . II . - THE ORIGIN OF ...
... treated with justice and huma nity by inferior ofcers . In a land of Icerty , there is no such thing known , as “ the entire sub- jection of one human being to the will of another ; " there is no slavery ! SECT . II . - THE ORIGIN OF ...
Pagina 18
... thy servant a dog , that he should do these things " As to the slave , the natural tendency of the oppression he endures , is to degrade and debase him below his natural level . He is treated as 18 THE MORAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY .
... thy servant a dog , that he should do these things " As to the slave , the natural tendency of the oppression he endures , is to degrade and debase him below his natural level . He is treated as 18 THE MORAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY .
Pagina 19
Esther Copley. him below his natural level . He is treated as a machine , to be worked by force ; this represses his energies , and promotes indolence , stupidity , and craft . He does nothing but what he is coupled to do : his ingenuity ...
Esther Copley. him below his natural level . He is treated as a machine , to be worked by force ; this represses his energies , and promotes indolence , stupidity , and craft . He does nothing but what he is coupled to do : his ingenuity ...
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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.