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The measures by which the British government has for a number of years been attempting to suppress the slave trade

... rightly appreciate our anti-slavery policy. The anti-slavery and anti-slave-trade operations of this country have, it cannot be denied, entailed enormous sacrifices upon our West India colonies. The virtue displayed by our anti-slavery agitators has been one ...

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 ...

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL

... islands protest against this attempt to violate national faith, cemmon with those resident in France. They do not defend slavery, but they demand that its abolition accompanied with measures calculated to insure a continuous supply of free labour. The ...

FREE-TRADE WITH INDIA

... involving in its success the only reasonable prospect of the overthrow of slavery and the slave trade. (Loud cheers.) He should commence his observations with a few words about slavery which would lead him naturally into the main thread of his argument. In ...

To the old type of politician, the slave of the red box, the believer in a divine tenure of Downingstreet,

... governments to set up anti-slavery principles. Lord Morpeth will not lend the sanction of his name and influence to so shallow a hypocrisy. No doubt he will injure himself in the estimation of the small section of anti-slavery ultras. But with every respect ...

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 ...