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" I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. "
The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Side 209
av William Cowper - 1854
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Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft

Maria J. Falco - 2010 - 250 sider
...would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold...dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them...
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Lucretia Mott

Dorothy Sterling - 1999 - 244 sider
...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation, prized above all price, I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him." even Susan Marriott...
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Amazing Grace in John Newton: Slave-ship Captain, Hymnwriter, and Abolitionist

William E. Phipps - 2001 - 306 sider
...that he found appalling. Cowper's first criticism of slavery is found in a poem he published in 1784: I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the...bonds than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home: then why abroad?107 Cowper assisted in establishing a true understanding of black people by composing...
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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867

Catherine Hall - 2002 - 584 sider
...was quoted below: I would not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. We have no slaves at home - why then abroad? This was followed by a poem in the voice of an enslaved...
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The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865

Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 sider
...reserved that I would not have a slave to till my ground... To cany me... to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake... for all the wealth That...dear as freedom is. and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price; I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds than fasten them on...
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William Cowper: Selected Poems

William Cowper - 2003 - 124 sider
...would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold...dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them...
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Searching for Jane Austen

Emily Auerbach - 2004 - 364 sider
...think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. Cowper concludes, "We have no slaves at home.—Then why abroad?" a question which goes as...
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The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810

Thomas F. Bonnell - 2008 - 408 sider
...think: himself a man ? t would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep. And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earnM* No : dear as freedom )s, and in my hcarfs Just estimation prilM above all price, I had much...
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