 | Clara Reeve - 2003 - 390 páginas
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellowsubjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...country, and introduces into a much happier state of life (156). Reeve's beliefs on the abolition of slavery, then, though mistaken, were quite conventional... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2005 - 428 páginas
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to 'shut the gates of mercy on mankind'.9 Again, it is worth while to notice this... | |
 | Tzachi Zamir - 2009 - 159 páginas
...structural similarity of such claims to past justifications of slavery: "[The abolition of slavery] would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...and introduces into a much happier state of life." Citation ascribed to James Boswell and is given in M. Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal... | |
 | 1898 - 612 páginas
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' . . Chut the gates of mere; on mankind.' Whatever may have passed elsewhere about it, the House of... | |
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To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre,... 
