Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants: With an Inquiry Into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature, and Lamentable EffectsJ. Phillips, 1788 - 131 pages |
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Page 39 - There is a principle which is pure placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure, and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion, nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren, in the best sense of the expression.
Page 39 - And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Page 1 - Negroes reclined under the shade of their spreading foliage; the simplicity of their dress and manners; the whole revived in my mind the idea of our first parents, and I seemed to contemplate the world in its primitive state: They are, generally speaking, very goodnatured, sociable and obliging.
Page 72 - Chirurgeons, whose Province it is, they are thoroughly examined, even to the smallest Member, and that naked too both Men and Women, without the least Distinction or Modesty. Those which are approved as good are set on one side; and the lame or faulty are set by as...
Page iii - ... public, from instructing them in common learning, he zealously promoted the establishment of a school for that purpose. Much of the two last years of his life he devoted to a personal attendance on this school, being earnestly desirous that they who came to it might be better qualified for the enjoyment of that freedom to which great numbers of them had been then restored.
Page 79 - ... irons two and two together. Reader, bring the matter home, and consider whether any situation in life can be more completely miserable than that of those distressed captives. When we reflect, that each individual of this number had some tender attachment which was broken by this cruel separation; some parent or wife, who had not an opportunity of mingling tears in a parting embrace; perhaps some infant or aged parent whom his...
Page xi - Ofiober, they lay the whole flat country under water; and, indeed, the very fudden rife of thefe rivers is incredible to perfons who have never been within the tropics, and are unacquainted with the violent rains that fall there. At Galam, goo miles from the mouth of the river Sanaga, the waters rife 1 50 feet perpendicular from the bed of the river.
Page 66 - ... guards to the fourth, to seize the people as they run out from the fire. He ties their arms behind them, and marches them to the place where he sells them, which is either Joar or Cabone.
Page 75 - Guinea" on this account. The first is taken verbatim from the original manuscript of the surgeon's journal : — " Sestro, Dec. 29, 1724. — No trade to-day, though many traders came on board. They informed us, that the people are gone to war within land, and will bring prisoners enough in two or three days ; in hopes of which we stay.
Page 79 - We had not been a fortnight at sea, before the fatal consequence of this despair appeared; they formed a design of recovering their natural right, liberty, by rising and murdering every man on board; but the goodness of the Almighty rendered their scheme abortive, and his mercy spared us to have time to repent. The plot was discovered; the ring-leader, tied by the two thumbs over the barricade door, at sun-rise received a number of lashes: in this situation he remained till sun-set, exposed to the...