 | 610 sivua
...have done against all propositions fur softening the rigours of colonial slavery. " ' Insurrections of all the blacks, massacre of all the whites,' are...middle passage, by admitting a little more air into the suflbcnting and pestilential holds of slaveships ; and a noble duke besought parliament not to meddle... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1823 - 586 sivua
...the year 1787, a very feeble attempt was made to abate the horrors of the Middle Passage — to admit a little more air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the Slave-ships. The alarm was instantly taken. The cry of the West-Indians, as we have heard it to-night,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1823 - 300 sivua
...the year 1787, a very feeble attempt was made to abate the horrors of the Middle Passage — to admit a little more air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the Slave-ships. The alarm was instantly taken. The cry uf the West-Indians, as we have heard it to-night,... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1823 - 642 sivua
...the year 1787, a very feeble attempt was made to abate the horrors of the Middle Passage — to admit a little more air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the Slave-ships. The alarm was instantly taken. The cry of the West-Indians, as we have heard it to-night,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - 830 sivua
...the year 1787, a very feeble attempt was made to abate the horrors of the middle passage — to admit a little more air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the slave-ships. The alarm was instantly taken. The cry of the West-Indians, as we have heard it lo-night,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 sivua
...rigours of colonial slavery. " lutvrrection of all the blacks, — massacre of all the white*,"— are the bug-bears which have been constantly conjured...air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the slave-ships ; and a noble duke besought Parliament not to meddle with the alarming guestion.* Confident... | |
 | 1825 - 520 sivua
...slavery. " Insurrection of all the blacks, — massacre of till the whiles," — are the bug-btars which have been constantly conjured up to deter the...air into the suffocating and pestilent holds of the slave-ships ; and a noble duke besought Parliament not to meddle with the alarming question.* Confident... | |
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... the subject of Negro Slavery, which has not been met with just the same predictions. No matter what the motion was ; it was always attended with the same predictions in almost the same language. In the year 1787, a very feeble attempt was made to... 