Anti-negro Emancipation: An Appeal to Mr. Wilberforce |
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abroad abuse Angel Court ANTI-NEGRO EMANCIPATION appellation apprentices berty blasphemies boasted body British BRITON candour choly Christian CIPATE common comparative consequently the fewest debtor degradation deprecate dition Eman England England's metropolis equally involved evils feeling female filthy form of government free-born freedom galling chain groes happy HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Hence high born holy humanity Huzza infatuated labour Let her teach licentiousness London lower classes lower orders Lucifer maid manufacturing town master melan miseries mistress Negro Emancipation never objects occa oppression Philanthropy plausible possibly know poverty privilege prostitu proud ranks rational sacred Satan scale of society schism sectarian sectarists semblance servants servitude sional Skinner Street slave and free-man slavery son of liberty specious spirit subordination suffer thee thousand tion TRUE LIBERTY unchristian vant vice and crime VICIOUS AND WRETCHED West Indian Wilberforce Woodfall wretched slaves wretchedness youthful delinquency
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Page 20 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Page 18 - ... thinking how many discontented half-pay lieutenants are in vain seeking promotion all their lives, and obliged to put up with " the insolence of office, and the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Page 12 - CRUEL, unchristian and impolitic ; cruel to the lower orders of society, in engendering and cherishing a spirit of dissatisfaction with their sphere and lot in life, which cannot and ought not to be elevated...
Page 8 - The hundreds of filthy streets and filthier dwelling holes ; the crawling squalid demi-brutes which huddle there; the workhouses, the prisons, the thousand homeless wretches which every morning know not where they shall get a breakfast ; the thousands of half naked, half famished, vermin-devoured miserables which meet and shock the sight of the London passenger, with minds as depraved as their bodies are degraded...