It has indeed, been -proposed to mitigate, in some degree, the miseries of his interminable bondage, but the blessings of [emancipation, according to the propositions of the abolitionists in the last session of Parliament, were to be reserved for his... Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest ... - Page 10by Elizabeth Heyrick - 1824 - 24 pagesFull view - About this book
| 610 pages
...bondage; but the blessings of emancipation, according to the proposition of the abolitionists in 1823, were to be reserved for his posterity alone; and every...such a project. " Who (it is asked) would place a sumptuous banquet before a halffamished wretch, whilst his powers of digestion were so feeble that... | |
| Christianity - 1825 - 520 pages
...of his master, will be best secured by his remaining in slavery. On this he continues to remark: — It has, indeed, been proposed to mitigate, in some...visionary, but as highly injurious to the slave himself, — aud a train of supposed apt illustrations is continually at hand, to expose the absurdity of such... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 pages
...continues to remark: — It has, indeed, been proposed to mitigate, in some degree, the miseries of hi's interminable bondage, but the blessings of emancipation,...visionary, but as highly injurious to the slave himself, — aud a train of supposed apt illustrations is conr tinnally at band, to expose the absurdity of... | |
| 1825 - 448 pages
...four hundred negroes were employed, not one in the number refused to work qftcr their emancipation. and every idea of immediate emancipation is' still...such a project. " Who (it is asked) would place a sumptuous banquet • before a half-famished wretch, whilst his powers of digestion were so feeble... | |
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