Abolition of the African Slave-trade: By the British Parliament, Volume 2P. A. Brinsmade, 1830 |
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Page 77 - theirs they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold. " Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task 1 Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in
Page 78 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters, iron-hearted, Lolling' at your jovial boards, Think, how many backs have smarted" For the sweets your cane affords. " Is there, as you sometimes tell us,
Page 95 - was associated. Let us not, he said, despair. It is a blessed cause; and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory. We have obtained for these poor creatures the recognition of their human nature,* which for a while, was most shamefully denied them. This is the first
Page 256 - Be mingled more! Quench, righteous God, the thirst That Congo's sons hath cursed— The thirst for gold ! Shall not thy thunders speak. Where Mammon's altars reek, Where maids and matrons shriek, Bound, bleeding, sold ? By Christians wrought! Them, who those chains
Page 256 - priesthood pore Moses and Jesus o'er, Then bolt the black man's door, The poor man's prison ! Wilt thou not, Lord, at last, From thine own image, cast Away all cords, But that of love, which brings Man, from his wanderings, Back to the King of kings, The Lord of lords!
Page 78 - Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold! whose sordid dealings Ere you proudly question ours.
Page 78 - answers. Wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder sea with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which He speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrant's habitations Where his whirlwinds answer....No. " By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks receiv'd the chain; By the miseries, which we tasted Crossing, in your barks, the main ; By our sufferings, since you brought us To the
Page 223 - met with on her passage, and the whole of whose crew, having become blind, were under the necessity of altogether abandoning the direction of their ship. They entreated the charitable interference of the Rodeur; but the seamen of this vessel could not either quit her to go on board the Leon, on account of the cargo of
Page 168 - chapter. Mr. Wilberforce and the members of the committee, whose constitutions had not suffered like my own, were still left; and they determined to persevere in the promotion of their great object as long as their health and their faculties permitted them. The former, accordingly, in the month of February 1795, moved in the house of commons for leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of the
Page 119 - and so piercing, that he determined to see what was going on. On looking in he perceived a young female tied up to a beam by her wrists; entirely naked; and in the act of involuntary writhing and swinging; while the author of her torture was standing below her with a lighted torch in