 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 410 pages
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.' Many sweet and precious things were opened in these meetings, by the spirit and in the power of the... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 466 pages
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.' Many sweet and precious things were opened in these meetings, by the spirit and in the power of the... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1837 - 500 pages
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty toward them, as the manner of some hath been and is, and that after certain years of servitude, they should make them free." in one of his epistles, he expresses the sentiment that " liberty is the right of all men," and on... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Society of Friends - 1848 - 372 pages
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty toward them, as the manner of some hath been and is, and that after certain years of servitude, they should make them free." In one of his epistles, he expresses the sentiment that " liberty is the right of all men," and on... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 54 pages
...letter expressing the indignation of the General Court' at their wrongs."* [This was in the year 1646.] "When George Fox visited Barbadoes, in 1671, he enjoined...The idea of George Fox had been anticipated by the fellow-citizens of Gorton and Roger Williams. Nearly twenty years had then elapsed since the representatives... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1851 - 282 pages
...indignation of the general court" at their wrongs. (5) "When George Fox visited Barbadoes in 1671, he 1 enjoined it upon the planters, that they should "...The idea of George Fox had been anticipated by the fellow-citizens of Gorton and Roger Williams. Nearly twenty years had then elapsed since the representatives... | |
 | William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...mildly and gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some had been ; and that, after certain years of servitude, they should make them free."* In a public discourse, he said : " Let me tell you, it will doubtless be very acceptable to the Lord,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1853 - 510 pages
...their native country, with a letter expressing the indignation of the general court" at their wrongs.4 1671. When George Fox visited Barbadoes in 1671, he...representatives of Providence and Warwick, perceiving the d1sposition of people in the colony " to buy negroes," and hold them " as slaves forever," had enacted... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...might come to the knowledge of the Lord," " desiring them also that they would cause their overseers to deal mildly and gently with their negroes, and that after certain years of servitude they would make them free." WESTMINSTER REVIEW. SELECTIONS FROM JOHN WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL. Some glances of... | |
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Barbadoes in 1671, he enjoined it upon the planters, that they should " deal mildly and gently with their negroes; and that, after certain years of servitude, they should make them free. 
