New Reasons for Abolishing the Slave Trade: Being the Last Section of a Larger Work, Now First Published, Entitled "The Dangers of the Country."J. Butterworth, 1807 - 67 páginas This is a smaller selection from a larger work entitled The Dangers of the Country, in which author James Stephen delivers and addresses many new relevant reasons for the abolishment of slavery. |
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... object of attachment , comprised in the endearing name of Country . I blush not to confess , that , in a distant climate , the expecta- tion of death has been embittered by the thought , that my dust would not mingle with my native soil ...
... object of attachment , comprised in the endearing name of Country . I blush not to confess , that , in a distant climate , the expecta- tion of death has been embittered by the thought , that my dust would not mingle with my native soil ...
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... object : and such a treatise I have already promised to submit to the public , unless the interests of humanity should happily cease to demand it . Mean- time I will in general affirm , that our sins against that devoted race in the New ...
... object : and such a treatise I have already promised to submit to the public , unless the interests of humanity should happily cease to demand it . Mean- time I will in general affirm , that our sins against that devoted race in the New ...
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... object of disloyal attachment in our hearts , which we avowedly prefer to our allegiance . We say , " It is true O God , thy laws are good , but the laws of commercial policy are better --- We must continue , for a while at least , to ...
... object of disloyal attachment in our hearts , which we avowedly prefer to our allegiance . We say , " It is true O God , thy laws are good , but the laws of commercial policy are better --- We must continue , for a while at least , to ...
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... for " the present that this trade shall be carried on under " the following rules and conditions . " He afterwards , in the 12th Article , recites the object to be , " to procure for " all his Subjects the greater advantages in the Slave ...
... for " the present that this trade shall be carried on under " the following rules and conditions . " He afterwards , in the 12th Article , recites the object to be , " to procure for " all his Subjects the greater advantages in the Slave ...
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abolish the slave abolition admit æra aggravated Almighty avarice beloved Country bondage Buonaparte calamities captivity cause character chargeable chastised chiefly coast colours commerce Common Place Book continent crimes cruel danger defence demand divine justice Divine Providence Domingo doubt dreadful earth effect Egypt enemies England enormous equal estimate Europe evils exportable slavery extent Ezekiel France French French revolution guilt Heaven House of Commons human immediate India Common Place Indies iniquity innocent blood island Israelites Jamaica justly labour land late laws legislature lence less livres maritime means ment middle passage millions misery moral national conscience nature negroes numbers imported offence oppression opprobrious Parliament perhaps period perseverance pestilent planters Poland Portugal principles Privy Council produced provocation reformation scourge scriptural shew singular sins slave ships sordid sugar colonies suppose sword thee thou hast tion unhappy violence West India Common whole Young's West India
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Página 25 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Página 24 - Therefore thus saith the Lord : Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour : behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith. the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine ; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 23 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Página 24 - ... the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Página 55 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Página 46 - And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more ; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
Página 23 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 46 - ... brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them ; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle ; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein ; and let them not regard vain words.
Página 25 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.
Página 24 - Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses : I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.