Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyages to the PresentFrancis Coleman Rosenberger Excerpt from Virginia Reader: A Treasury of Writings, From the First Voyages to the Present Richard henry lee (1782-1794) address TO the virginia house OF burgesses On the motion to lay so heavy a duty on the importation of slaves as effectually to put an end to that iniquitous and dis graceful traffic within the colony of Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... less cause than the loss of our forecastle , with six guns , and our anchors ( all but one that was fastened to a cable ) together with our two cooks , whereof one was recovered by a strange providence . This great gap , made by want of ...
... less pressure than our own to turn every thing to gold . In Brazil , where Slavery exists in connection with a race and govern- ment far behind any that it can find in the United States , it is less out of place , and need not use much ...
... less victim was as natural to us as it was to the negroes themselves ; and , as night after night we would hurry up to the great house through the darkness , we were ever on the watch lest he should ap- pear to our frighted vision from ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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