 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...Barbadoes legislature, referring to the negro slives, and reciting that • they being brutish slave?, deserve not, for the baseness of their condition,...by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers.' Now your only possible motive for raking up a disgraceful record like this, which has teen buried in... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...quote an act of the Barbadoes legislature, referring to the negro slaves, and reciting that ' they being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers.' Now yew only possible motive for raking up a disgraceful record like this, which has been buried in... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Abolitionists - 1823 - 642 pages
...An act of Barbadoes, (8th Aug. 1688,) prescribing the mode of trial for slaves, recites, that " they being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...tried by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers, Stc." Another clause of the same act, speaks of the " barbarous, wild, and savage natures of the same... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...quote an act of the Karbadoes legislature, referring to the negro si ives, and reciting that * they being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers.' Now your only possible motive for raking up a disgraceful record like this, which has been buried in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 586 pages
...An act of Barbadoes, (8th Aug. 1688,) prescribing the mode of trial for slaves, recites, that " they being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...tried by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers, &c." Another clause of the same pet, speaks of the " barbarous, wild, and savage natures of the same... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...commendable regard to the rights of man, and the spirit of the British constitution, declares, that " they being brutish " slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...condition, to " be tried by the legal trial of twelve men ;" whilst another clause speaks in a like equitable strain, of the " barbarous, " wild, and savage... | |
 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - Books - 1823 - 700 pages
...An act of Barbadoes, (8th Aug. H>88,) prescribing the mode of trial for slaves, recites, that "they being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness...their condition, to be tried by the legal trial of Iwelve men of their peers, &c." Another clause of the same uct, speaks of the "barbarous, wild, and... | |
 | Thomas Southey - West Indies - 1827 - 568 pages
...stealing, or attempting to steal, any " quick or dead thing," of the value of twelve pence; as they " many times, by attempting to steal from the inhabitants...neither truly can be rightly done, as the subjects of-England are, nor is execution to be delayed towards them, is case of such horrid crimes committed."... | |
 | Thomas Southey - West Indies - 1827 - 574 pages
...stealing, or attempting to steal, any •" quick or dead thing," of the value of twelve pence; as they " many times, by attempting to steal from the inhabitants...peers or neighbourhood; which neither truly can be righdy done, as the subjects of England are, nor is execution to be delayed towards them, is case of... | |
 | Thomas Southey - West Indies - 1827 - 568 pages
...aforesaid, do put such inhabitants, or some of their family, in terror, dread, and jeopardy of their lives j which several offenders, for danger of escape, are...for the baseness of their condition, to be tried by die legal trial of twelve men of their peers or neighbourhood ; wliich neither truly can be rightly... | |
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... being brutish slaves, deserve not, for the baseness of their condition, to be tried by the legal trial of twelve men of their peers... 
