A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies: In a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British DominionsJ. Phillips, 1785 - 46페이지 |
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14 페이지 - And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and...
13 페이지 - I fear the generality of you who own negroes are liable to such a charge; for your slaves, I believe, work as hard, if not harder, than the horses whereon you ride. These, after they have done their work, are fed and taken proper care of; but many negroes when wearied with labour in your plantations, have been obliged to grind their corn after their return home...
16 페이지 - Negroes reclined under the shade of their spreading foliage; the simplicity of their dress and manners; the whole revived in my mind the idea of our first parents, and I seemed to contemplate the world in its primitive state: They are, generally speaking, very goodnatured, sociable and obliging.
6 페이지 - The negroes in our colonies endure a slavery more complete, and attended with far worse circumstances, than what any people in their condition suffer in any other part of the world, or have suffered in any other period of time. Proofs of this are not wanting. The prodigious waste which we experience in this unhappy part of our species, is a full and melancholy evidence of this truth.
30 페이지 - One, therefore, has no body but himfcif to blame, in cafe he (hall find himfelf deprived of a man, whom he thought he had, by buying for a price, made his own ; for he dealt in a trade which was illicit, and was prohibited by the moft obvious dictates of humanity.
18 페이지 - That the discerning natives account it their greatest unhappiness, that they were ever visited by the Europeans. — That the Christians introduced the traffick of Slaves; and that before our coming they lived in peace.
30 페이지 - As soon, therefore, as he comes into a country in which the judges are not forgetful of their own humanity, it is their duty to remember that he is a man, and to declare him to be free.
16 페이지 - I was not a little pleafed with this my firil reception ; it convinced me, that there ought to be a confiderable abatement made in the accounts I had read and heard every where of the favage character of the Africans.
37 페이지 - To go as pirates and catch up poor negroes or people of another land, that never forfeited life or liberty, and to make them slaves, and sell them, is one of the worst kinds of thievery in the world ; and such persons are to be taken for the common enemies of mankind ; and they that buy them and use them as beasts, for their mere commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their souls, are fitter to be called...
16 페이지 - Speaking of the appearance of the country, and of the difpofition of the people, he fays, || " Which way c« foever I turned mine eyes on this pleafant " fpot, I beheld a perfect image of pure nature ; " an agreeable folitude, bounded on every fide...