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LITERATURE

... , respectingI slavery, than any individual who has hitherto written or i spoken on the subject. He commenced a tour of the West India Islands in 1837, the ptriod at vbich the negro popu- lation were supposed to be emerging from slavery into a state of ...

THE CONQUERORS OF THE NEW WORLD, AND THEIR BONDSMEN

... developmlent of the most t consptcuotls form of modern slavery, Iby trac- i ing ''the priicipal events that led to the subjcctionI of the Indianls of the New World, and e to the introduction of negro slavery in America and a the West Indics. Justly conceiviig ...

LITERATURE

... course, the work is9 intended as a contribution} to the anti-slavery movement, and, as such, will be' chiefly read in this eonntry. Yielding to no one in the intensity of our conviction that slavery is a violation of the first principles of the moral law and ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Poems on Slavery. By Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow. Owen: Cambridge (Mass:ichnssets, ?? 1842. With this little volume, the work of an American: writer whose courage is equal to his intellect, we have received some papers on the present ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Hammond, against all revilers of Slavery. It will be immediately seen that J. H. Hammond is a pious man. Of his spiritual sprinkling, as Mrs Cole calls it, Slavery has been the precious instrument. American Slavery is to Hammond what precious Mr Squintem ...

LITERATURE

... present day; aec Impartial Viev of Slavery aund Free- labour Systeens ; Statistics of Mine Island, and Bioqra- ,t Piical Motices of the Principal Families. 2 vols. Ia rSaunders and Otley, 1844. : d An impartial view of slavery and the free-labour systems 11 ...

THE VOICE OF THE TIME

... world! Over lind, over sea, it hath come, The serf that was yesterday bought, To-day his defiance hath hurl'd, No more in his slavery dumb; And to-morrow will break from the fetters that bind, And lift a bold arm for the rights of maukind. Hark to the voice ...

SONG

... While ye, ber sbrs; 'ie knliown, Thus bereft, to be left lII shiveirV id ;ihiii, WXlile the ?? ar9 isfrahclised, And ye in. slavery groan. Ye workinjg-ltihe of ?? (ivb Wiy nibt to (dtsplaii, For your bainheir ytl Wbial lirbidly Flut upon the air; Your rights ...

THE BRIDE

... wealth and fame; ti And a shadow on her brow was thrown, 0o If they ever spoke his name. d And she lived in her splendid slavery, SE With a heart whose joy was flown; a And her spirit loathed that luxury w Which mock'd a heart thus lone. p. i ?? __ I ...

LOVE OF LIBERTY

... LOVE OF LIBERTY. A uoy-I dream'd of Liberty; A youth-I said but am I Free? A Man-Ifelt that Slavery Had bound me in her chain But, yet, the dream wnhch, when a boy, Was wont my musings to employ, East rolling years could not destroy, With all their ...

LITERATURE

... modern slAvery. - But we are now ocrining, to closer quarters. Allow that the system of Jewish slavery is a di- tvinely authorisod orie, and thait we have made, and are ot omatte, noadvance in humaknity since then, stisilthe system - of modern slavery is ...

A VOICE FROM THE ENSLAVED

... so plainly, Still sloth and coward fear appals. Is it, that base thoughts enchain yee Is it, the chain no longer galls? If slavery has ceased to pain ye, No matter what strange flate befals. Is it superstitious blunder That spreads a veil before your eyes ...