| Michael T. Gilmore - 2003 - 240 페이지
...which he took aim at colonial presumption. The work is best remembered for its rebuke of hypocrisy: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" No less revealing is the introductory assault on the entire worldview of the Americans. In contrast... | |
| James Hoopes - 2003 - 356 페이지
...During the American Revolution, Samuel Johnson had voiced the mind of many puzzled Englishmen by asking, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Recent historians have offered a plausible answer to the riddle of how slaveholders could conceive... | |
| Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts - 2003 - 282 페이지
...Foremost among these was Samuel Johnson, who upon reading the Declaration of Independence quipped, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes." Quoted in Albert Boime. "Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters: Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and... | |
| Malcolm Muggeridge - 2003 - 292 페이지
...There's a wonderful saying of Dr Johnson that wise and good man - that I like very much: 'Why,' he asks, 'is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of slaves?' Human Life Review, 1977 Systematically, stage by stage, our way of life had been dismantled,... | |
| Stephen Tomkins - 2003 - 214 페이지
...They called for liberty, but already had as much as most English people and, anyway, 'How is it dial we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Wesley read it, fell for it and plagiarized it. He edited it into a pamphlet entitled A Calm Address... | |
| Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 페이지
...colonists. However, his hatred of hypocrisy led him to make one shrewd hit at the American patriotic case. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"* Johnson hated the institution of slavery and he knew that almost none of the American leaders attacked... | |
| David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 페이지
...and gave it a new purpose that it had not possessed before. SLAVERY DEFENDED Liberty for Slaveholders How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 IN THE YEAR 1852, 3. Louisiana cotton farmer named Edwin Epps hired a... | |
| Harriet C. Frazier - 2004 - 228 페이지
...others. Dr. Johnson's pithy remarks in 1777 on slaveholding American patriots capture this paradox: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Johnson continued his opposition to slavery by observing, "An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty... | |
| A. N. Wilson - 2003 - 772 페이지
...the next insurrection of negro slaves in the West Indies.' (Of the Americans in 1777, he had asked, 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?') The same paradox which Tory Johnson had observed in the 1770s was on glaring display in the 1860s.... | |
| Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 페이지
...justice that the leaders of American society wanted to consolidate their own slave-owning ascendancy ('how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?'),'6 and providing a thoughtful disquisition on the nature of nations and nationalism by comparing... | |
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