 | John Franklin Jameson - 1967 - 128 pages
...book on slavery. Is it not amazing [he says] that at a time, when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country above...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty? . . . Would anyone believe I am the master of slaves of my own purchase! I am drawn along by the general... | |
 | Duncan J. MacLeod - 1975 - 260 pages
...such an Age, and such a Country we find Men, professing a Religion ycmost humane, mild, meek, gende and generous ; adopting a Principle as repugnant to...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to Liberty.' But, like the Fontaines, Henry was a slaveholder. 'Would any one believe that I am Master of Slaves... | |
 | Jennifer L. Hochschild, Joseph Hochschild - 1984 - 284 pages
...understood with precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty, that . . . we find men . . . adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty? . . . Would anyone believe I am the master of slaves of my own purchasel I am drawn along by the general... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 pages
...not amazing," wrote Patrick Henry in 1773, "that at a time, when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above...inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?" But I have believed that the white immigration and population was a distinct and a sufficient theme... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 pages
...Ibid., 1 60; Patrick Henry, who also had slaves, was just as eloquent an opponent of slavery, calling it "as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive of liberty." James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (New York: New Press, 1995), 139. 68. P. Foner,... | |
 | Paul Gordon Lauren - 2003 - 418 pages
...precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty, that in such a country we find men . . . adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it...is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?"121 Former slaves like Olaudab Equiano founded the Sons of Africa to mount public campaigns... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 pages
...such an age, and in such a country, we find men, professing a religion the most humane and gentle, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it...inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty? I could say many things on this subject, a serious view of which gives a gloomy prospect for future... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - 324 pages
...such an age, and in such a country, we find men, professing a religion the most humane and gentle, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity, as...inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty! I could say many things on this subject, a serious view of which gives a gloomy prospect for future... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2009 - 288 pages
...in such an age and in such a country, we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, meek, gentle and generous, adopting a Principle as repugnant...it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive of liberty? Every thinking honest man rejects it in speculation, how few in practice from conscientious... | |
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Is it not amazing that, at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty, that, in such an age, and... 
