...drivers of negroes? ' 'sand 'in company with some very grave men at Oxford, he gave as his toast, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." ' " As early as 1740 he maintained ' the natural right of negroes to liberty and independence.' ' An...

...discovered " a zeal without knowledge." Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West-Indies." His violent prejudice against our West-Indian and American settlers appeared whenever...

...whose whole-hearted devotion hardly admits that there were any spots on his literary sun, allows that ' his violent prejudice against our West Indian and...settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.' What that prejudice was, we have Johnson's own words to show. ' In America there is little to be observed...

...whose whole-hearted devotion hardly admits that there were any spots on his literary sun, allows that ' his violent prejudice against our West Indian and...settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.' What that prejudice was, we have Johnson's own words to show. ' In America there is little to be observed...

...discovered a ' zeal without knowledge.' " Upon one occasion when in company with some very grave men at Oxford his toast was, ' Here's to the next insurrection...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with...

...discovered a ' zeal without knowledge.' " Upon one occasion when in company with some very grave men at Oxford his toast was, ' Here's to the next insurrection...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with...

...moneyed men and their ways, and with all his regard for the established order once gave as a toast, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' * He complained that ' the laws of Jamaica afford a negro no redress. His colour is considered as sufficient...

...or qualification. ' Upon one occasion (says Boswell), when ' in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his 'toast was, "Here's to the next insurrection of the 'negroes in the West Indies ".' Sterne, writing in 1766, is equally emphatic. Thus in a letter to Ignatius Sancho, an American...

...discovered ' a zeal without knowledge.' Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' His fi violent prejudice against our West Indian and American v settlers appeared whenever there was an...

...We have been too quick to forget the horrors which caused Samuel Johnson to give his famous toast: "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies" (Goldwin Smith, '/'//• United Kingdom, voL n. i,in,4. Corruption, thus initiated in one part of public...