 | Ralph Bauer - History - 2003 - 320 pages
...perch on the cage. Actuated by an involuntary motion of my hands more than by any design of my mind, I fired at them; they all flew to a short distance,...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes; his cheek-bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
 | Linda Bolton - History - 2004 - 232 pages
...witness to a moment in American letters nearly unequaled in its visual horror and unadulterated violence: Horrid to think, and painful to repeat, I perceived...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
 | John David Cox - Social Science - 2010 - 266 pages
...(177). Perceiving some birds of prey on a cage, James involuntarily fires his gun and scares them off, "when, horrid to think and painful to repeat, I perceived...Negro, suspended in the cage and left there to expire" (178). Unable to travel to safety, the slave is literally being eaten alive by birds and swarming insects.... | |
 | Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 246 pages
...perch on the cage. Actuated by an involuntary motion of my hands, more than by any design of my mind, I fired at them; they all flew to a short distance,...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
 | Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 302 pages
...perch on the cage. Actuated by an involuntary motion of my hands, more than by any design of my mind, I fired at them; they all flew to a short distance,...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
 | Susan Clair Imbarrato - American prose literature - 2006 - 273 pages
...Letters from an American Farmer, provides a more impassioned response to his encounter with slavery: "I perceived a Negro, suspended in the cage and left...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes; his cheek-bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
 | William Randolph Scott - History - 2000 - 480 pages
...the cage. Actuated In an involuntary motion of my hands, more than by any design of my mind, I tired at them; they all flew to a short distance, with a...there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes, his cheek bones were bare; his arms had been attacked in several... | |
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I perceived a negro, suspended in the cage, and left there to expire! I shudder when I recollect that the birds had already picked out his eyes... 
