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" His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes - Stran 188
avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas

David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 strani
...and gave it a new purpose that it had not possessed before. SLAVERY DEFENDED Liberty for Slaveholders How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 IN THE YEAR 1852, 3. Louisiana cotton farmer named Edwin Epps hired a...
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Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865

Harriet C. Frazier - 2004 - 228 strani
...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...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 strani
...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...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - 2005 - 974 strani
...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...
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An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke

Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 strani
...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...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 strani
...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,...
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The Pocket Book of Patriotism

Jonathan Foreman - 2005 - 112 strani
...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...
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The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History

Richard Haw - 2005 - 332 strani
...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...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 strani
...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...
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Slavery and Resistance

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...
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