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... Sierra Leone , by Mr. Ran- Extract from the narrative of a resi- kin : - " The Gulf of Guinea is studded with fleets of prison - ships that steal into every river , and forcibly convey to the New World from the Old the population of ...
... Sierra Leone , by Mr. Ran- Extract from the narrative of a resi- kin : - " The Gulf of Guinea is studded with fleets of prison - ships that steal into every river , and forcibly convey to the New World from the Old the population of ...
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... Sierra Leone , at the Havan- na , at Rio de Janeiro , and at Surinam , -and of the British Consuls in the Brazils , at Bahia , at Maranham , at Per- nambuco and at Para , have been filled from year to year , with representations and ...
... Sierra Leone , at the Havan- na , at Rio de Janeiro , and at Surinam , -and of the British Consuls in the Brazils , at Bahia , at Maranham , at Per- nambuco and at Para , have been filled from year to year , with representations and ...
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... Sierra Leone , from 1st Janu- ary , 1827 , to 1st January , 1835 : — Vessels . Spanish 60 Portuguese 38 Slaves . Emancipated . 16,964 14,778 5,896 5,384 Netherlands 8 1,573 1,381 Brazilian 36 7,596 6,143 27,686 3,707 142 32,029 Died ...
... Sierra Leone , from 1st Janu- ary , 1827 , to 1st January , 1835 : — Vessels . Spanish 60 Portuguese 38 Slaves . Emancipated . 16,964 14,778 5,896 5,384 Netherlands 8 1,573 1,381 Brazilian 36 7,596 6,143 27,686 3,707 142 32,029 Died ...
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... Sierra Leone , published by Bentley , 1836. ] " Close in shore lay a large schooner , so remarkable from the low , sharp cut of her hull , and the excessive rake of her masts , that she seemed amongst the other craft as a swallow seems ...
... Sierra Leone , published by Bentley , 1836. ] " Close in shore lay a large schooner , so remarkable from the low , sharp cut of her hull , and the excessive rake of her masts , that she seemed amongst the other craft as a swallow seems ...
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... Sierra Leone for the purpose of adjudication . A second time , therefore , the unfortunate dungeon - ship put to sea with her luckless cargo , and again crossed the Atlantic amidst the horrors of a two months ' voyage . The ' Donna ...
... Sierra Leone for the purpose of adjudication . A second time , therefore , the unfortunate dungeon - ship put to sea with her luckless cargo , and again crossed the Atlantic amidst the horrors of a two months ' voyage . The ' Donna ...
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Page 283 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 94 - HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears attend the cry; " Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Page 196 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 282 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Page 70 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 84 - If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion toward his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious...
Page 224 - When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless, a God of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or, at length, by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality.
Page 21 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Page 29 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 224 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.