The African Slave Trade: Part II. The RemedyJohn Murray, 1840 - 259 pages |
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... Labour - Warning against Slavery -Captain Beaver - Mr . Fox - British Dominion— Dangers - Answers to Objections - Encouragement of African Produce . Chap . VI . ELEVATION OF NATIVE MIND - ____ - Opinion of Mr. Pitt - Allowance to be ...
... Labour - Warning against Slavery -Captain Beaver - Mr . Fox - British Dominion— Dangers - Answers to Objections - Encouragement of African Produce . Chap . VI . ELEVATION OF NATIVE MIND - ____ - Opinion of Mr. Pitt - Allowance to be ...
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... labour , brings back a copious collection of details calculated to excite pity , disgust , and horror . Happy would it be if it were as easy to point out the remedy , as to explore the disease . To this task I now address myself ...
... labour , brings back a copious collection of details calculated to excite pity , disgust , and horror . Happy would it be if it were as easy to point out the remedy , as to explore the disease . To this task I now address myself ...
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... labour and food , and a variety of other circum- stances favourable to colonization and agriculture , and reflect withal on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation , without la- menting that a country so ...
... labour and food , and a variety of other circum- stances favourable to colonization and agriculture , and reflect withal on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation , without la- menting that a country so ...
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... store of wealth which human labour might derive from its cultivation , and convincing them that the Slave Trade alone debars them from enjoying a vastly more affluent supply of our valuable commo- dities , 20 THE REMEDY .
... store of wealth which human labour might derive from its cultivation , and convincing them that the Slave Trade alone debars them from enjoying a vastly more affluent supply of our valuable commo- dities , 20 THE REMEDY .
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... labour of the people , instead of the people themselves . My first object , then , is to show that Africa pos- sesses within herself the means of obtaining , by fair trade , a greater quantity of our goods than she now receives from the ...
... labour of the people , instead of the people themselves . My first object , then , is to show that Africa pos- sesses within herself the means of obtaining , by fair trade , a greater quantity of our goods than she now receives from the ...
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The Remedy; being a sequel to the African Slave Trade. With a map Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Affichage du livre entier - 1840 |
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abolition abundance advantage afford agriculture Almamy already amongst Arabic Benin Bight Bight of Benin Bight of Biafra Britain British Bulama capable Cape Captain carried Central Africa Christianity civilisation civilization Clapperton climate colony considerable continent corn cotton cultivation desire effect established European European articles evil exported extent favour Fernando Fernando Po fertile Foulah Freetown Gambia give Gold Coast Government Governor grow immense important increased indigo industry inhabitants instruction intercourse interior king labour Laird land legitimate commerce liberated Africans Macarthy's Island Mandingo manufactures means ment merchants miles missionaries nations native chiefs nature navigable negroes neighbourhood Niger object obtained palm-oil persons population possession present produce profit quantity rich river says Senegal settlements Sherbro ships Sierra Leone Slave Trade slavery Society soil supply suppression Timbuctoo tion town traffic travellers treaties tree tribes Tschadda valuable vast vessels Western Africa whole wood
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Page 231 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 190 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Page 221 - He did not see why true believers, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come...
Page 176 - If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret.
Page 177 - We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land,* which at some happy period in still later times may blaze with full lustre, and joining their influence to that of pure religion, may illuminate and invigorate the most distant extremities of that immense continent.
Page 158 - Whence but from Heaven could men, unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain and martyrdom their price.
Page 63 - ... M'Keal appears to be slightly delirious). We kept ascending the mountains to the south of Toniba till three o'clock, at which time, having gained the summit of the ridge which separates the Niger from the remote branches of the Senegal, I went on a little before ; and coming to the brow of the hill, I once more saw the Niger rolling its immense stream along the plain!
Page 82 - The colony has been grievously injured by the want of a systematic plan or rule for its government. Every governor has been left to follow his own plans, however crude and undigested, and no two succeeding governors have ever pursued the same course. This remark applies more particularly to the management of the liberated Africans.
Page 137 - ... and food, and a variety of other circumstances favourable to colonization and agriculture, and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of a vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country, so abundantly gifted and favoured by nature, should remain in its present savage and neglected state.
Page 245 - It is not to be doubted that this country has been invested with wealth and power, with arts and knowledge, with a sway of distant lands, and the mastery of the restless waters, for some great and important purpose in the government of the world.