An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African. Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with AdditionsJ. Phillips, and sold by T. Cadell, and J. Phillips, 1787 - 256페이지 This 1786 publication is a translation of a prizewinning Latin essay written by Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) at Cambridge the previous year. Clarkson's deep research into the Atlantic slave trade instilled in him a sense of duty, inspiring him to devote his life to abolitionism. The publication of the essay introduced Clarkson to like-minded campaigners, notably William Wilberforce (1759-1833) and Granville Sharpe (1735-1813), with whom he helped to establish in 1787 the pioneering Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. |
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iv 페이지 - And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.
112 페이지 - God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind : From star to star the mental optics rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, Or with new worlds amaze th
142 페이지 - ... happiness. And then see whether they do not place it in the return to their own country, rather than in the contemplation of your grandeur, of which their misery makes so large a part. A return...
107 페이지 - Such then is the nature of this servitude, that we can hardly expect to find in those, who undergo it, even the glimpse of genius. For if their minds are in a continual state of depression, and if they have no expectations in life to awaken their abilities, and make them eminent, we cannot be surprised if a sullen gloomy stupidity should be the leading mark in their character; or if they should appear inferior to those, who do not only enjoy the invaluable blessings of freedom, but have every prospect...
123 페이지 - It is confpicuous in every blufti; for no one can imagine, that the cuticle becomes red, as often as this happens: nor is it lefs difcoverable in the veins, which are fo eafy to be difcerned ; for no one can fuppofe, that the blue ftreaks, which he conftantly fees in the taireft complexions, are painted, as it were, on the furface of the upper Ikin.
128 페이지 - America under the torrid zone *' for any time, are become as dark coloured as our na" live Indians of Virginia, of which, Imyfelf have been ** aivitnefs; and were they not to intermarry with the " Europeans, but lead the fame rude and barbarous lives ** with the Indians, it is very probable that, in a fuccef" fion of many generations, they would become as dark ** in complexion.
119 페이지 - That all mankind did spring from one original, and that there are no different species among men. For God who made the world, hath made of one blood all the nations of men that dwell on all the face of the earth.
127 페이지 - Guinea, is, that this colour changes when the inhabitants are removed into other countries. The children they procreate in America are not fo black as their parents were. After each generation, the difference becomes more palpable. It is poffible, that after a numerous fucceffion of generations, the men come from Africa would not be diftinguifhed from thofe of the country into which they may have been tranfplanted.
122 페이지 - ... adhered fo firmly to the Cuticle as, in all former anatomical preparations, to have come off with it, and, from this circumftance, to have led the ancient anatomifts to believe, that there were but two lamina, or divifible portions in the human fkin.
124 페이지 - Л fia are found to have their rete mucofum black : thofe of Africa, fituated near the line, of the fame colour ; thofe of the maritime parts of the fame continent, of a dufky brown, nearly approaching to it ; and the colour becomes lighter or darker in proportion as the diftance from the equator is either greater or lefs. The Europeans are the faired inhabitants of the world.