 | Juda Bennett - 1996 - 168 pages
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 | Robin W. Winks - 1997 - 582 pages
...of Canada's own Negro history. The poet Cowper, in celebrating Justice Mansfield's decision, thought that "Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free." This was adequate poetry but inaccurate current events, for Mansfield's decision freed no substantial... | |
 | Karen L. Kilcup - 1998 - 272 pages
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 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...bk. I The Sofa' I. 749; cl. Cowley 2 59:12, Proverbs (ยป11:15 20 Slaves cannot breathe in Kngland, if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. The Task ( l 78 s I bk. 2 'The Timepiece' I. 40; cf. Anonymous I8:S 21 Hngland, with all thy faults,... | |
 | Helena Woodard - 1999 - 206 pages
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 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 pages
...GARRISON. RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM; OR, THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. "Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs...free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. " COWPER. LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND. i860. Ellen Craft, the fugitive slave. PREFACE. HAVING... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 pages
...guaranteed to Britons with that denied to the people they enslave abroad (2.37-44). Cowper's reminder that "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free," plays on the arguments and language used at the precedent-setting 1772 trial of James Somerset, whose... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall - 2000 - 324 pages
...slave lands in England; you know what one of our best poets said, that if their lungs but breathed our air, that moment they are free; they touch our country and their shackles fall. But how is it with an Englishman? Why an Englishman, if he goes to the Cape, he can vote; if he goes... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. 
