 | 610 pages
...compunction let us admit the opprobrious truth) of supporting and perpetuating slavery. The West India planter and the people of this country stand in the...liberty ; treats him as a beast of burden ; compels bis reluctant, unremunerated labour, under the lash of the cart- whip: — why? — because WE furnish... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
...which we are all implicated ;—we are all guilty,—of supporting and perpetuating slavery. The West Indian planter and the people of this country, stand...The planter refuses to set his wretched captive at liberty,—treats him as a beast of burden,—compels his reluctant urn-enumerated labour under the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 pages
...and compunction let us admit the opprobrious truth) of supjHirting and perpetuating slavery. The West Indian planter and the people of this country stand! in the same moral relation to each other, ai the thief aud the receiver of stolen goods. The planter refuses to set bis wretched captive at liberty,... | |
 | Ian Haywood, Zachary Leader - History - 1998 - 280 pages
...and compunction let us admit the opprobrious truth) of supporting and perpetuating slavery. The West Indian planter and the people of this country, stand...reluctant unremunerated labour under the lash of the cart-whip - why? - because WE furnish the stimulant to all this injustice, rapacity, and cruelty, by... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - History - 2006 - 500 pages
...city's grocers to urge them to stock no slave-grown goods. Her message was clear and bracing: "The West Indian planter and the people of this country, stand...other, as the thief and the receiver of stolen goods. . . . Why petition Parliament at all, to do that for us, which . . . we can do more speedily and more... | |
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... in our West India colonies, is not an abstract question, to be settled between the Government and the Planters - it is a question in which we are all implicated; - we are all guilty (with shame and compunction let us admit the opprobrious truth) of... 