 | James Grahame - 1827 - 546 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude, they should make them free e." How conscientiously the quakers complied with this admonition is apparent, from a law passed $... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 466 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.' Many sweet and precious things were opened in these meetings, by the spirit and in the power of the... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 410 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some hath been and is ; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.' Many sweet and precious things were opened in these meetings, by the spirit and in the power of the... | |
 | William Evans - 1837 - 508 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty toward them, as the manner of some hath been and is, and that after certain years of servitude, they should make them free." In one of his epistles, he expresses the sentiment that " liberty is the right of all men," and on... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1843 - 156 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty towards them as the manner of some hath been and is; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free." In a public discourse spoken in that island, he bears the following remarkable testimony: " let me... | |
 | Thomas Evans - 1848 - 372 pagina’s
...gently with their negroes, and not use cruelty toward them, as the manner of some hath been and is, and that after certain years of servitude, they should make them free." In one of his epistles, he expresses the sentiment that " liberty is the right of all men," and on... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1858 - 54 pagina’s
...letter expressing the indignation of the General Court' at their wrongs."* [This was in the year 1646.] "When George Fox visited Barbadoes, in 1671, he enjoined...The idea of George Fox had been anticipated by the fellow-citizens of Gorton and Roger Williams. Nearly twenty years had then elapsed since the representatives... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1851 - 282 pagina’s
...indignation of the general court" at their wrongs. (5) "When George Fox visited Barbadoes in 1671, he 1 enjoined it upon the planters, that they should "...The idea of George Fox had been anticipated by the fellow-citizens of Gorton and Roger Williams. Nearly twenty years had then elapsed since the representatives... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1853 - 510 pagina’s
...the act of stealing negroes as " expressly contrary to the law of God and the law of the country;"9 the guilty men were committed for the offence;3 and,...representatives of Providence and Warwick, perceiving the d1sposition of people in the colony " to buy negroes," and hold them " as slaves forever," had enacted... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...might come to the knowledge of the Lord," " desiring them also that they would cause their overseers to deal mildly and gently with their negroes, and that after certain years of servitude they would make them free." WESTMINSTER REVIEW. SELECTIONS FROM JOHN WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL. Some glances of... | |
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Barbadoes in 1671, he enjoined it upon the planters, that they should " deal mildly and gently with their negroes ; and that, after certain years of servitude, they should make them free. 
