 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 strani
...slaves. It was now appallingly clear that George III preferred "the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice.'"4 The king had already committed far greater crimes against the enslaved Africans, but his... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - 2003 - 576 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was scarcely ever known to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. 1782 Notes on the State of Virginia. (WTJ I,440) It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate... | |
 | Philip Gould - 2003 - 284 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice.1 Although Jefferson's attitudes toward African Americans have been the subject of ongoing... | |
 | Gesa Mackenthun - 2004 - 252 strani
...Jefferson, 'have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...human nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice' (14—15). Himself a slaveholder, Jefferson puts the slave trade down to a few English pirates while... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2004 - 260 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was scarcely ever known to... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 strani
...defeated by his majesty's negative: Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsair to the lasting interests of the American states and...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." While addressing the King with humility and respect, Jefferson listed six "acts of tyranny" of the... | |
 | Eva Sheppard Wolf - 2006 - 310 strani
...America (1774) Jefferson condemned King George for "preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice [of slave trading]." In his original draft of the Declaration of Independence (but not in the final version... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 strani
...prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative: thus preferring the immediate advantages "s Nay the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was scarcely ever known to fail... | |
 | David Armitage - 2007 - 332 strani
...nations, recalled the charge in the Summary View that the king had "preferr[ed] the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice," by refusing to countenance the abolition of the slave trade.67 It also hinted at one of the most troubling... | |
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Majesty's negative ; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs, to the lasting interests of the American States, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. 
