A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa: Consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species : to which is Added, A Desultory Letter Written to Napoleon Bonaparte, Anno Domini, 1801 |
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... expence of the public , administered to rich and poor with- out respect of persons . If the complaint of a slave against his master was found , upon inves- tigation , to be just , his master was obliged to assign over his service to ...
... expence of the public , administered to rich and poor with- out respect of persons . If the complaint of a slave against his master was found , upon inves- tigation , to be just , his master was obliged to assign over his service to ...
Page 82
... a virtuous married man on their planta- tions . The reason for this is , they pretend that a family is attended with more expence than an unmarried manager or overseer . But egregiously are they mistaken 82 PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
... a virtuous married man on their planta- tions . The reason for this is , they pretend that a family is attended with more expence than an unmarried manager or overseer . But egregiously are they mistaken 82 PRELIMINARY ESSAY .
Page 83
... expence of human blood ? Accursed support ! And a curse must , doubtless , attend the man that enjoys it . Do I envy him ? No. I do , God knows , from my inmost soul , pity him . Though swimming in wealth , he is an abhorrence to God ...
... expence of human blood ? Accursed support ! And a curse must , doubtless , attend the man that enjoys it . Do I envy him ? No. I do , God knows , from my inmost soul , pity him . Though swimming in wealth , he is an abhorrence to God ...
Page 89
... expence of the public , to instruct them in the principles of the Christian religion , as they are held in the Romish church . All the festivals of that church were observed among them . Then the slaves were forbidden to work , and ...
... expence of the public , to instruct them in the principles of the Christian religion , as they are held in the Romish church . All the festivals of that church were observed among them . Then the slaves were forbidden to work , and ...
Page 205
... expences . Have you , for many years , received such prodigious sums from the sweat , the blood , the lives , of millions of wretched slaves in your colonial territories ; and will you , can you , refuse or delay to take their wretched ...
... expences . Have you , for many years , received such prodigious sums from the sweat , the blood , the lives , of millions of wretched slaves in your colonial territories ; and will you , can you , refuse or delay to take their wretched ...
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Page 253 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 160 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Page 144 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 145 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there ; and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces ; and her time is near to come, and her days...
Page 153 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 151 - ... eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave...
Page 151 - And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Page 151 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 272 - I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility. II. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and...
Page 144 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.