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. - Stran 188avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1811Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Arthur H. Cash - 2006 - 496 strani
...Farringdon Without. Courtesy of Gerald M. Goldberg. from plantations in Antigua. Dr. Johnson famously asked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"2 The next day, Alderman Wilkes, dressed in somber black robes with a long white wig upon... | |
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