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
| Omar H. Ali - 2008 - 256 páginas
...would include a line in his draft of the Declaration, later removed, denouncing the slave trade as a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people." But he does not denounce slavery itself.2 As he proclaims... | |
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