 It is the fashion here as well as in our colonies, to consider the negroes as the last link in the chain of humanity, between the monkey tribe and man, but I do not believe the negro is inferior to the white man in intellect; and I do not suffer the eloquence...  Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 - Page 194by Richard Robert Madden - 1829 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Robert Madden - Egypt - 1833 - 326 pages
...seen negroes from Darfur, the symmetry of whose persons might have served for a standard of beauty : neither does the observation apply to the intellect...suffer the eloquence of the slave driver to convince me VOL. I. H that the negro is so stultified as to be unfit for freedom. The qualities of men depend much... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...were first brought down to Alexandria, nothing could exceed their insubordination and wild demeanor ; but they learned the military evolutions in half the...that the negro is so stultified as to be unfit for freedom.—Travels in Turkey, Egypt, and Nubia, <S(.c. MR. DUPUIS. British Consul at Mogadore, says... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...military evolutions in half the time of the Arabs, and I always observed they went through the manœuvres with ten times the adroitness of the others. It is...negro is so stultified as to be unfit for freedom. — Travels in Turkey, Egypt, and Nubia, ¿fc. MR. DUPUIS. British Consul at Mogadore, says of the... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 238 pages
...were first brought down to Alexandria, nothing could exceed their insubordination and wild demeanor ; but they learned the military evolutions in half the...do not believe the negro is inferior to the white mao in intellect ; and I do not suffer the eloquence of the slave driver to convince me that the negro... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...the Arabs, and I always observed they went through the manoeuvres with ten times the adroitness of others. It is the fashion here, as well as in our...negro is so stultified, as to be unfit for freedom." Yet gentlemen would give the Arab these rights which they refused to the coloured man of their own... | |
 | Bernard Lewis - History - 1990 - 220 pages
...French.30 An English traveler writing in 1825 had this to say about black soldiers in the Egyptian army: When the negro troops were first brought down to Alexandria,...chain of humanity, between the monkey tribe and man in intellect; and I do not suffer the eloquence of the slave driver to convince me that the negro is... | |
 | Deborah Manley, Peta Rée - Diplomats - 2001 - 340 pages
...people as individuals. In his Travels Madden spoke out in the strongest terms about other men's racism: "It is the fashion here, as well as in our colonies,...that the negro is so stultified as to be unfit for freedom."7 Madden — possibly reflecting Salt's real thoughts — was very critical of Mehemet Ali's... | |
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