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" While he contended earnestly for the liberty of the people born in one quarter of the globe, he laboured to enslave the inhabitants of another region ; and in the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, pronounced it to be lawful and expedient... "
Retrospective Review - Page 247
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The West Indies, and Other Poems

James Montgomery - Slave trade - 1814 - 178 pages
...born in one quarter of ' the globe, laboured to inslave the inhabitants of ano' ther region, and, in his zeal to save the Americans from ' the yoke, pronounced...lawful and expedient to ' impose one still heavier on the Africans.' — Robertson's History of America, Vol. I., Part III. But the circumstance connected...
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The History of America, Volume 1

William Robertson - America - 1817 - 448 pages
...means of restoring liberty to another. n t_ _^_, But Las Casas, from the inconsistency natural 1517to men who hurry with headlong impetuosity towards a...pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one stillheavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles...
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The Works of William Robertson ...: History of America

William Robertson - America - 1817 - 470 pages
...the people born in one quarter of the globe, he laboured to enslave the inhabitantsofanotherregion ; and in the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a ..., Volume 2

Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 pages
...concerting the means of restoring freedom to another. " While he contended," says a late writer,* " for the liberty of the people born in one quarter...lawful and expedient to impose one, still heavier, uponlhe Africans." It would be difficult perhaps to say what yoke could well be heavier than the rigorous...
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The Works of William Robertson: The history of America

William Robertson, Alexander Stewart - America - 1820 - 440 pages
...pronounced * Herrera, dec. 1. lib. vc 12. f Ibid. lib. viii. c. 9. 312 BOOK 1518. Las Casas proposes it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his...
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The Works of William Robertson, D. D...: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 7

William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - History - 1821 - 478 pages
...rejected the proposition, because he Ilr" perceived the iniquity of reducing one race of men 15*17 to slavery, while he was consulting about the means...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his...
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The History of America, Volume 1

William Robertson - America - 1821 - 478 pages
...rejected the proposition, because he ni - perceived the iniquity of reducing one race of men '""IS^T"*' to slavery, while he was consulting about the means...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his...
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The History of America, Volume 2

William Robertson - America - 1821 - 614 pages
...contended earnestly x. for the liberty of the people born in one quarter of the globe, hela-^.--' beared to enslave the inhabitants of another region; and...and expedient to impose one still heavier upon the * Hmera, dec. 3. lib. ii. c. 16, 19, 21. lib. iii. c. 7, 8. Africans. U nforlunately for the latter....
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The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: Including Several Poems ..., Volume 1

James Montgomery - 1821 - 294 pages
...born in ' one quarter of the globe, laboured to enslave the in' habitants of another region, and, in his zeal to save * the Americans from the yoke, pronounced it to be ' lawful and expedient to impose one it-ill heavier on ' the Africans.' — Robertson's History of Jlmeriea, Vol. I. Part HI. But the circumstance...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 6

Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...sufficient number of negroes from the Portugueze settlements on the coast of Africa, and to transport them to America, in order that they might be employed as...imagination could devise. In this manner, is built up a pompous declamation against one of the most unwearied and disinterested benefactors of the human race....
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