A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo,: Begun in August, 1791:1792 - 32 sider |
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Side 19 - ... and * cruelly assassinated, by the revolters. " It is by the glare of the conflagrations that " every way surround us, that we now deliberate : " we are compelled to sit armed and watchful " through the night, to keep the enemy from our " sanctuary. For a long time past our bosoms " have been depressed by sorrow ; they experience " this day, for the first time, the sweet emotions of " pleasure, in beholding you amongst us. " Generous islanders ! humanity has operated " powerfully on your hearts...
Side 7 - ... just unflattered picture of the government of our negroes ; and this domestic government had been meliorated (particularly in the last ten years) with an anxiety of which you will find no example in Europe. The sincerest attachment connected the master and his slaves. We slept in security in the midst of men that were become our children, and many of us had neither locks nor bars to our houses. Not that we would disguise to you, that there did exist, among the planters, a very small number of...
Side 19 - Generous iflanders ! humanity has operated powerfully on your " hearts; you have yielded to the firft emotion of your generofity, *' in the hopes of fnatching us from death; for, it is already too late " to fave us from mifery. What a contraft between your conduct " and that of other nations ! We will avail ourfelves of your btfne...
Side 2 - Scattered over an extent of country ; interlctlcd by mountains and . deep valleys; the llyirjg inhabitants attempted to rally and to fell their lives dearly. The roads were blockaded; they were taken prifoners and maffacred.
Side 7 - ... of knowledge and humanity, become infamous. Here we appeal, not to those who write romances to gain a name as men of sensibility — to acquire a momentary popularity, soon to be wrested from them by general indignation ; but to them who have visited — who know the colonies. Let them say if the recital we have made is faithful, or if we have coloured it to interest you in our cause. We repeat it, we have passed our lives in this state of tranquillity and happiness, and we returned to the mother...
Side 6 - ... want, subject to every misery, possess fewer enjoyments than those who have been represented to you, and to the world in general, as loaded with chains and perishing by a lingering death. The situation of the negroes in Africa — without property, without political or civil existence, continually a prey to the weak capricious fury of tyrants, who divide among them that vast uncivilized country — is changed in our colonies for a condition of comfort and enjoyment. They are deprived of nothing;...
Side 19 - armed and watchful through the night, to keep the enemy " from our sanctuary. For a long time past our bosoms have " been depressed by sorrow, they experience this day, for the " first time, the sweet emotions of pleasure, in beholding you '« amongst us. " Generous islanders! humanity has operated powerfully on " your hearts; you have yielded to the first emotion of your " generosity, in the hopes of snatching us from death; for it " is already too late to save us from misery. What a contrast "...
Side 6 - ... Africa — without property, without political or civil existence, continually a prey to the weak capricious fury of tyrants, who divide among them that vast uncivilized country — is changed in our colonies for a condition of comfort and enjoyment. They are deprived of nothing; for liberty, which, it is true, they have not, is a plant that has never yet proved fertile in their native soil; and, whatever the spirit of party may assert, whatever imagination may invent, well-informed men are not...
Side 6 - A paternal government had, for many years past, meliorated the condition of our negroes ; and we dare affirm, that millions of Europeans, attacked by every want, subject to every misery, possess fewer enjoyments than those who have been represented to you, and to the world in general, as loaded with chains and perishing by a lingering death. The situation of the negroes in Africa — without property, without political or civil existence, continually a prey...
Side 24 - Can we fail to fee, that an obligation to fell their produce only to the members of the mother-country, and to buy of them alone every article they want, forms a double fource of riche;, of which the meafure isimmenfe?