Memoirs of a West-India PlanterHamilton, Adams, 1827 - 218 páginas |
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Página xxix
... lashes at one time and for one offence ; nor inflict , nor suffer to be inflicted , such last - mentioned punishment , nor any other number of lashes , on the same day , nor until the delinquent has recovered from the effect of any ...
... lashes at one time and for one offence ; nor inflict , nor suffer to be inflicted , such last - mentioned punishment , nor any other number of lashes , on the same day , nor until the delinquent has recovered from the effect of any ...
Página 73
... lash of the driver ; and the planter groaning under the tyranny of passions yet more capricious and cruel . Bondage is the lot of all ; and the clouds of a judicial blindness , overshadowing those mournful regions , shut up in a common ...
... lash of the driver ; and the planter groaning under the tyranny of passions yet more capricious and cruel . Bondage is the lot of all ; and the clouds of a judicial blindness , overshadowing those mournful regions , shut up in a common ...
Página 113
... , and upon the plains , and to awaken the echoes , & c .'- Beckford's Jamaica , ii . 51 . This author also was a decided friend of slavery . to make even a few lashes a tremendous punishment . WEST - INDIA PLANTer . 113.
... , and upon the plains , and to awaken the echoes , & c .'- Beckford's Jamaica , ii . 51 . This author also was a decided friend of slavery . to make even a few lashes a tremendous punishment . WEST - INDIA PLANTer . 113.
Página 114
John Riland. to make even a few lashes a tremendous punishment . A planter , who valued himself on his humanity , once pointed out to me a driver of his , then passing by , as a man whose strength of arm and adroitness in the use of his ...
John Riland. to make even a few lashes a tremendous punishment . A planter , who valued himself on his humanity , once pointed out to me a driver of his , then passing by , as a man whose strength of arm and adroitness in the use of his ...
Página 116
... lash of a male driver ? 6 But the accusation against the abolitionists would prove too much ; as , at this rate , no appeals to the imagination must be made by means of the graphic art . Therefore , all the pictures in Fox's Martyrology ...
... lash of a male driver ? 6 But the accusation against the abolitionists would prove too much ; as , at this rate , no appeals to the imagination must be made by means of the graphic art . Therefore , all the pictures in Fox's Martyrology ...
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Memoirs of a West-India Planter: Published from an Original Manuscript (1827) John Riland Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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Abolitionists Africa appeared Appendix attended Barbadoes Berbice Bishop Black British Cæsar called cause character child Christ Christian church clergy clergyman colonial colonists colour comfort crime cruelty Daniel death deck Demerara driver duties effect England evidence father favour feelings female flogged Frederic friends gang Gospel happy heard human instruction island Jamaica jobbers kind Kingston labour Lagoon lashes late liberty lived look Lord Mahali Majesty's Government manumission marked marriages married massa master middle passage mind misery missionary moral mother nature Negroes never night observed occasion oppression overseer parish party persons plantation planters poor principle punishment racter Ravenswood religion religious shew slave ship Slave Trade slavery society soon spirit Stewart sugar sugar islands Sunday superaddition supposed thing tion told West Indies West-India whip White wish witnessed
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Página 11 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Página xxxvi - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página xxix - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 181 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Página 129 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 161 - ALTHOUGH in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacraments ; yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving of the Sacraments.
Página 201 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
Página 20 - Such are their natures and their passions such, But these disguise too little, those too much : So shall the man of power and pleasure...
Página 44 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates...
Página 46 - No man is by nature the property of another — The defendant is therefore by nature free — The rights of nature must be some way forfeited before they can be justly taken away — That the defendant has by any act forfeited the rights of nature we require to be proved ; and if no proof of such forfeiture can be given, we doubt not the justice of the court will declare him free.