The Planter: Or, Thirteen Years in the South, by a Northern ManH. Hooker, 1853 - 275 páginas |
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abolition abolitionism abolitionists Africa allowed ancient Rome Anti-Slavery atheistic authority Baker street better Bible British CHAPTER character Christian Cleon cold comfort condition crime cruel Cudjo death destitution Doctor Drayton Island emancipation English evil faithful Fanny Wright father favor fear free negroes frightful results George Gospel happy heart heathen HOST human hundred ignorant infidel institution Japheth kind King labor Ladies of England land learned less live Lord Lord Palmerston manumission Mas'r master means millions miserable Mungo Park negro slavery never noble North Northern notion pagan party perhaps plantation pleasant pleasure poor privileges Quaker race religion religious Roman savage says scene seemed slave-trade soul South Southern negroes Southern slaves spirit strange suffering suppose TABLEAUX VIVANTS thing thought thousands tion true truth Uncle Uncle Tom unhappy women of England words wretched
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Página 260 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 169 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 271 - 11 find me ready, — happier man am I. Cleon sees no charms in nature, in a daisy I ; Cleon hears no anthems ringing in the sea and sky; Nature sings to me forever, earnest listener I ; State for state, with all attendants, who would change ? Not I.
Página 240 - Then to the stout sea-captains the sheriff turning said : " Which of ye, worthy seamen, will take this Quaker maid ? In the Isle of fair Barbadoes, or on Virginia's shore, You may hold her at a higher price than Indian girl or Moor.
Página 240 - Pile my ship with bars of silver — pack with coins of Spanish gold, From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,— By the living God who made me ! I would sooner in your bay Sink ship and crew and cargo than bear this child away!
Página 240 - A weight seemed lifted from my heart, a pitying friend was nigh, I felt it in his hard, rough hand, and saw it in his eye; .And when again the sheriff spoke, that voice, so kind to me, Growled back its stormy answer like the roaring of the sea: "Pile my ship with bars of silver — pack with coins of Spanish gold...
Página 257 - His righteousness, he has not to take thought for what he shall eat or what he shall drink, or wherewithal he shall be clothed.
Página 107 - ... Europe have carried on with the natives of the Coast, it is neither within my province, nor in my power, to explain. If my sentiments should be required concerning the effect which a discontinuance of that commerce would produce on the manners of the natives, I should have no hesitation in observing, that, in the present unenlightened state of their minds, my opinion is, the effect would neither be so extensive or beneficial, as many wise and worthy persons fondly expect.
Página 238 - In 1658 two young persons, son and daughter of Lawrence Southwick of Salem, who had himself been imprisoned and deprived of nearly all his property for having entertained Quakers at his house, were fined for non-attendance at church. They being unable to pay the fine, the General Court issued an order empowering " the Treasurer of the County to sell the said persons to any of the English nation of...
Página 156 - It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they have propagated in the towns wherein they have settled ; so that not only they who have been ejected have been rendered miserable, but they have carried with them and propagated that misery.