If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independence with the one hand, and, with the other, brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves. Four Tracts ... - Página 33por Thomas Day - 1785 - 433 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 páginas
...dispensing power of St. Peter's successors, to excuse their own observance of those rules which they impose on others? If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his... | |
| Kit Bakke - 2006 - 284 páginas
...all openly sympathized with the American rebels. The irony of slavery, however, did not escape them, "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independence on one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted... | |
| David Armitage - 2007 - 332 páginas
...unalienable." The English abolitionist Thomas Day, writing in 1776, went even further in his criticism: "If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his... | |
| 56 páginas
...who has never respected the rights of nature in another, pretend to claim them in his own favour?. . .If there be an object truly ridiculous in Nature, it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other brandishing a whip over his... | |
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