| Edward Long - 1774 - 640 pages
...not, from this reafon, argue that every Englishman is (according to Voltaire) a favage. The planters do not want to be told, that their Negroes are human...of human kind, they cannot regard them (which Mr. Sharpe infifts they do) as no better than dogs or horles. But how many poor wretches, even in England,... | |
| John Child - 1995 - 102 pages
...much happier by it. James Boswell, a Scottish writer and lawyer, about 1790. The plantation owners do not want to be told that their Negroes are human...they believe them to be of human kind, they cannot think of them as dogs or horses. An advertisement in a Caribbean paper. Note that the slaves had been... | |
| Maghan Keita - 2000 - 225 pages
...in-depth example of the reasoning of the period. As he noted, somewhat sardonically, "[T]he planters do not want to be told, that their Negroes are human...of human kind, they cannot regard them (which Mr. Sharpe insists they do) as no better than dogs or horses."11 Long's argument hinged on a "scientific"... | |
| Alan Taylor - 2002 - 548 pages
...increased brutality by thinking of the Africans as stupid brutes. An English visitor noted, "The planters do not want to be told that their Negroes are human...them to be of human kind, they cannot regard them ... as no better than dogs or horses." The brutality failed to break most slaves, who subtly resisted... | |
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