 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 páginas
...THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. "Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are 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 páginas
...reshape it into a more humane and justifiable enterprise. "Spread [freedom] then," the poet writes, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire. That where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. (2.44-47) The new, British Empire, post-dating the slave trade,... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall - 2000 - 324 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 páginas
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs 40 Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch...ev'ry vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence,... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 páginas
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | William L. Andrews, David Alexander Davis - 2003 - 306 páginas
...lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." "Slaves cannot breathe in England; If their lungs receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall." — Cowper.16 When I reached Liverpool, I proceeded to Dr. Raffles, and handed my letters of recommendation... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 páginas
...sentiment is breathed forth in the verse of Cowper: "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch...blessing. Spread it then And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too."... | |
 | Cindy Weinstein - 2004 - 276 páginas
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch...shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud. (lines 39-45)18 Cowper's words here, which celebrate the British love for freedom and the proud nobility... | |
 | Frank W. Sweet - 2005 - 557 páginas
...Windsor Castle was unable to find any record of it. 131 Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment, they are free! They touch our country and their shackles fall. Figure 18. Lord Mansfield To be sure, this was the same period when the idea of "racial" African inferiority... | |
 | William L. Andrews - 2006 - 328 páginas
...lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." "Slaves cannot breathe in England; If their lungs receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall."— Cowper.55 When I reached Liverpool, I proceeded to Dr. Raffles, and handed my letters of recommendation... | |
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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. 
