We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties ; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps... Works - Stran 188avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1811Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Arthur Riss - 2006 - 134 strani
...hypocrisy is, of course, longstanding, instantiated perhaps most memorably by Samuel Johnson's quip: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" See also Barbara J. Fields, "Ideology and Race in American History," in Region, Race, and Reconstruction,... | |
| Robin Meyers - 2007 - 224 strani
...Americans, in Johnson's eyes, were "thieves" in their relations with indigenous peoples and African slaves. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? ... I am willing to love all mankind, except an American."9 For the same reason that many young people... | |
| Jeffrey Robert Young - 2006 - 280 strani
...287, 308-10, 350-51. 1 34. In perhaps the most famous Tory quip to this effect, Samuel Johnson asked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Quoted in Jack P. Greene, "Slavery or Independence: Some Reflections on the Relationship among Liberty,... | |
| Gordon S. Wood - 2006 - 344 strani
...seemed cheap. The American Revolution changed all this. The revolutionaries did not need Dr. Johnson ("How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?") to tell them about the glaring inconsistency between their appeals to liberty and their owning of slaves.... | |
| Jeffrey Robert Young - 2006 - 280 strani
...287, 308-10, 350-51. 134. In perhaps the most famous Tory quip to this effect, Samuel Johnson asked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Quoted in Jack P. Greene, "Slavery or Independence: Some Reflections on the Relationship among Liberty,... | |
| Ian W Toll - 2006 - 614 strani
...hundred men, women and children, some of whom were his blood relations. As Dr. Samuel Johnson had asked: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" With this in mind, it is hardly surprising to find that Jefferson's words and deeds on the subject... | |
| David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 strani
...rely on such individual motives and goodwill in response to Samuel Johnson's famous jibe at Americans: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Yet owners manumitted a surprisingly large number of slaves during the Revolution or soon after. Even... | |
| Anne Devereaux Jordan, Virginia Schomp - 2007 - 88 strani
...from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have." The British were only too happy to agree. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" asked British writer Samuel Johnson. A few white colonists responded to these contradictions by calling... | |
| Paul Finkelman - 2006 - 2076 strani
...owners. Not a few Englishmen and many Americans read the Declaration and wondered, as did Samuel Johnson, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" This question bothered some early constitution makers. But only three of the new states confronted... | |
| Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 strani
...to justify their rebellion.57 Here, of course, was the answer to Samuel Johnson's celebrated jibe: "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"58 The two greatest discursive productions of the legal mind in America during the Revolutionary... | |
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