Anti-slavery Monthly Reporter, Volumen3Zachary Macaulay London Society for the Mitigation and Abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions, 1831 |
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... improvement that has been effected among them . But , even if a Sabbath were at length given to the slaves , and more efficient plans of instruction were adopted , little benefit would accrue , even from these improvements , under a ...
... improvement that has been effected among them . But , even if a Sabbath were at length given to the slaves , and more efficient plans of instruction were adopted , little benefit would accrue , even from these improvements , under a ...
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... improved within the last fifteen or twenty years in their dispositions towards the people of colour ; but he could not view the concession of political privileges , by special acts made to particular individuals , during the last seven ...
... improved within the last fifteen or twenty years in their dispositions towards the people of colour ; but he could not view the concession of political privileges , by special acts made to particular individuals , during the last seven ...
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... improving the condition of the slaves . " This assertion Sir Robert describes as " a gratuitous , wicked , and barefaced falsehood . " - Now we think the Ho- nourable Baronet is hardly justified in the use of such strong language . -In ...
... improving the condition of the slaves . " This assertion Sir Robert describes as " a gratuitous , wicked , and barefaced falsehood . " - Now we think the Ho- nourable Baronet is hardly justified in the use of such strong language . -In ...
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... improving the condition of the slave . He clings to it with fondness , and returns to it again and again . It is certainly , however , rather unfortunate that this very measure must be viewed , in the judgment of every man in this ...
... improving the condition of the slave . He clings to it with fondness , and returns to it again and again . It is certainly , however , rather unfortunate that this very measure must be viewed , in the judgment of every man in this ...
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... improvements which now render the state of the colonial slave the just envy of the British peasant , are the growth of the last twenty years . - The next witnesses produced are more modern , but they are also anonymous , and cannot ...
... improvements which now render the state of the colonial slave the just envy of the British peasant , are the growth of the last twenty years . - The next witnesses produced are more modern , but they are also anonymous , and cannot ...
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Página 89 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Página 412 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring Famine from the gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 224 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.
Página 335 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding, or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it.
Página 500 - That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the Slave Population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other Classes of His Majesty's Subjects.
Página 392 - 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.
Página 226 - This is true ; for Christianity, soliciting admission into all nations of the world, abstained, as behoved it, from intermeddling with the civil institutions of any. But does it follow, from the silence of Scripture concerning them, that all the civil institutions which then prevailed were right ? or that the bad should not be exchanged for better...
Página 335 - God on the heart of man ; and by that law, eternal, unchangeable, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations.
Página 368 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Página 450 - shall have the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession ; " when " the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.