He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable... Putnam's Monthly - Página 101Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Elizabeth Sirimarco - 2007 - 150 páginas
...HAS WAGED cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's [sic] most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation... | |
| David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 páginas
...which deserves to be quoted again in this new context. Jefferson accused King George III of "[waging] cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into... | |
| Clint Johnson - 2007 - 288 páginas
...including the following paragraph condemning slavery and its endorsement by King George III: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. After objections from slaveholding delegates, that paragraph, which went on... | |
| Audrey Fisch - 2007 - 230 páginas
...happiness"; Jefferson also writes in a draft statement that "the present King of England . . . has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither," but these words are omitted in the final document 1777 Vermont prohibits slavery... | |
| Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 páginas
...which was submitted to the Continental Congress. In it, he penned, "He [King George III] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its...another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither." He continued, "This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is... | |
| Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 páginas
...Declaration of Independence included a scathing attack upon slavery and the slave trade: [The King] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere. . . . This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king... | |
| Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O'Brien - 2007 - 505 páginas
...Thomas Jefferson, originally contained language accusing the British king of pursuing slavery, of waging "cruel war against human nature itself, violating...distant people who never offended him, captivating them and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in the transportation... | |
| Johannes Steffens - 2007 - 49 páginas
...transatlantischen Sklavenhandel: He [George III.] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons...distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation... | |
| Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom - 2007 - 248 páginas
...committee's version includes as one of the most serious charges against the king the accusation that he had "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating...its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the person of a distant people . . . |by| carrying them into slavery." There can be no doubt that Jefferson... | |
| Franklin E. Rutledge - 2007 - 264 páginas
...on die slave trade, in which die Virginia slaveholder, had charged die King of England widi having "waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in die persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying diem into slavery."... | |
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