The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate1830 |
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Página 378
... allowed them for breakfast , the eating of a manioc cake requiring no respite from work . For dinner the slaves had nominally two hours allowed them , but in this time they had to cut a bundle of grass or wood for the master , which ...
... allowed them for breakfast , the eating of a manioc cake requiring no respite from work . For dinner the slaves had nominally two hours allowed them , but in this time they had to cut a bundle of grass or wood for the master , which ...
Página 382
... allowed by law ; and having considered likewise that the weight of chain is not excessive , since it has not hindered the slave girl escaping again from her master's house , we order that the said girl Virginie shall be returned to her ...
... allowed by law ; and having considered likewise that the weight of chain is not excessive , since it has not hindered the slave girl escaping again from her master's house , we order that the said girl Virginie shall be returned to her ...
Página 383
... allowed by Sir Lowry Cole's new law , ( No. 42. p . 335. ) was six pounds ; and ten pounds is the usual weight of double irons in England for felons , the very highest being fourteen pounds . We know not whether this lady be the same ...
... allowed by Sir Lowry Cole's new law , ( No. 42. p . 335. ) was six pounds ; and ten pounds is the usual weight of double irons in England for felons , the very highest being fourteen pounds . We know not whether this lady be the same ...
Página 389
... allowed to receive the full price of his maltreated slave , while the poor slave was to be sold to some one who might be the instrument of Diott's vengeance upon him . Diott sustained no other punishment than this , either in purse or ...
... allowed to receive the full price of his maltreated slave , while the poor slave was to be sold to some one who might be the instrument of Diott's vengeance upon him . Diott sustained no other punishment than this , either in purse or ...
Página 390
... allowed to escape from prison , and it was reported that he had destroyed himself . He reappeared , however , two years after , but no notice was taken of his crime . 2. The daughter of one Bauvet , a cooper , put to death a boy of the ...
... allowed to escape from prison , and it was reported that he had destroyed himself . He reappeared , however , two years after , but no notice was taken of his crime . 2. The daughter of one Bauvet , a cooper , put to death a boy of the ...
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Página 438 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Página 279 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 498 - That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the Slave Population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other Classes of His Majesty's Subjects.
Página 438 - The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Página 204 - I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, " Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.
Página 294 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Página 390 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Página 279 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 410 - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 333 - ... the wild and guilty phantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether the old covenant or the new, denounce such unholy pretensions. To those laws did they of old refer, who maintained the African trade.