The African Slave Trade, and Its RemedyJ. Murray, 1840 - 495 pàgines |
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The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy. (Second Edition.) [With a Map.] Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Visualització completa - 1840 |
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abolition agriculture already amount annually appears arrived Ashantee Benin Bights of Benin Brazil Britain British brought Bulama Cape Coast Cape Coast Castle Captain captured cargo carried chiefs Christian civilization Class coast of Africa colony considerable Coomassie cotton cruelty Cuba cultivation dated deck Denham effect embarked established European evil exported Fernando Fernando Po Fezzan flag Foulah Gambia give gold Gold Coast Government Governor Havana horrors human important increased industry informed inhabitants interior island king Kordofan labor Laird land legitimate commerce letter liberated Africans Lord Palmerston manufactured means ment merchants middle passage miles misery missionaries mortality nations natives negroes Niger number of slaves object obtain persons population port Portuguese present produce Report river says Senegal settlements Shendy Sherbro ship Sierra Leone Slave Trade slave-vessels soil Spanish sufferings suppression taken tion town traffic Travels treaty tribes vessel victims visited voyage whole wretched
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Pàgina 401 - For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Pàgina 416 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Pàgina 454 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Pàgina 445 - He did not see why true believers, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come...
Pàgina 183 - ... such negro or mulatto on board any such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate, and on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found shall suffer death.
Pàgina 470 - For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast ; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction : for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
Pàgina 403 - If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa, engaged in the calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, which at some happy period in still later times, may blaze with...
Pàgina 470 - For the seed shall be prosperous ; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew ; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Pàgina x - Then may we hope that even Africa, though last of all the quarters of the globe, shall enjoy at length in the evening of her days those blessings which have descended so plentifully upon us in a much earlier period of the world.
Pàgina 387 - Whence but from Heaven could men, unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain and martyrdom their price.