...the next insurrection of negro slaves in the West Indies.' (Of the Americans in 1777, he had asked, 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?') The same paradox which Tory Johnson had observed in the 1770s was on glaring display in the 1860s....

...others. Dr. Johnson's pithy remarks in 1777 on slaveholding American patriots capture this paradox: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Johnson continued his opposition to slavery by observing, "An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty...

...colonists. However, his hatred of hypocrisy led him to make one shrewd hit at the American patriotic case. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"* Johnson hated the institution of slavery and he knew that almost none of the American leaders attacked...

...justice that the leaders of American society wanted to consolidate their own slave-owning ascendancy ('how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?'),'6 and providing a thoughtful disquisition on the nature of nations and nationalism by comparing...

...of the liberties of Britons. Johnson juxtaposed figurative with literal slavery in his famous reply: "if slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it...the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"55 Literal slavery is not an issue here; Johnson, Burke, and Price all despised it. But, since...

...addition, almost as an aside, he draws attention to the paradox at the heart of the colonists' complaint: 'If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it...the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?'58 Reflections on the Revolution Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on...

...WILLIAM PRESCOTT 3775 US population reaches 2.5 million 1775 Samuel Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" 1776 The Declaration of Independence: 1776 Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations 1776 Edward Gibbon's...

...dissolution of the United States. In England, author Samuel Johnson posed a barb that was difficult to avoid: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" 34 34. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, p.275. 2. UNITING AROUND A CONSTITUTION,...

...War, the idea of American freedom had often seemed somewhat hollow. As Samuel Johnson famously asked, "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" 17 For foreign observers, the Civil War seemed to consign the contradictions of freedom and slavery...

...dissolution of the United States. In England, author Samuel Johnson posed a barb that was difficult to avoid: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"34 34. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, p.275. 2. UNITING AROUND A...