| William Goodell - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 632 pages
...of human nature." Sir William Jones said : " I pass with haste, by the coast of Africa, whence ray mind turns with indignation at the abominable traffic...which a part of our countrymen dare to derive their inauspicious wealth." Our limits forbid us to extend this list of witnesses, into which we have introduced... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Abolitionists - 1857 - 348 pages
...of all the acted and imagined crimes in nature. — The, Moral State of Nations. SIR WILLIAM JONES. I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, whence my...which a part of our countrymen dare to derive their inauspicious wealth. Sugar, it has been said, would be dear if it were not worked by blacks ; as if... | |
| 1823 - 562 pages
...Africa, whence my miud turns with indignation at the abominable traffic in the human species, froqn which a part of our countrymen dare to derive their most inauspicious wealth. Sugar, it is said, would be dear, if it were not worked by .Blacks in the western islands ; as if the most laborious,... | |
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