Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243043644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 2 Quently inculcated benevolence, we have no reason to conclude from any facts they have left us, that persons in their days did any thing more than occasionally relieve an un fortunate object, who might present himself before them, or that, however they might deplore the existence of public evils among them, they joined in associations for their suppression, or that they carried their cha rity, as bodies of men, into other kingdoms. To Christianity alone we are indebted for the new and sublime spectacle of seeing men going beyond the bounds of individual usefulness to each other - of seeing them associate for the extirpation Of private and public misery - and of seeing them carry their charity, as a united brotherhood, into distant lands And in this wider field of benevolence it would be unjust not to confess, that no country has shone with more true lustre than our own, there being scarcely any case of acknowledged affliction, for which some Of her Christian children have not united in an attempt to provide relief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528585149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament Among the evils, corrected or subdued, either by the 5 ncral influence of Christianity on the minds of men, or particular associations of Christians, the African Slat trade appears to me to have occupied the foremost plat The abolition of it, thefifore, of which it has devolved 1 on me to write the history, should be accounted as one the greatest blessings, and, as such, should be one of 1 most copious sources of our joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade, by the British Parliament
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade, by the British Parliament
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave-trade
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present
Author: Martha SimmonsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039305831X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 989
Book Description
One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical legacy of African American preaching more than three hundred years in the making. Each sermon, as editors Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas reveal, is a work of art and a lesson in unmatched rhetoric. The journey through this anthology—which includes selections from Jarena Lee, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner C. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others—offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods. The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. “Even during the most difficult and oppressive times,” Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, “the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege.” This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life.
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528454483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 of 3 I made interest at the Custom-house for various exports and imports, and for copies of the muster rolls of several slave-vessels, besides those of ves sels employed in other trades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243166879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 3 Christians, the African* Slave-trade appears to me to have occupied the foremost place. The abolition Of it, therefore, of which it has devolved upon me to write the history, should be accounted as one Of the greatest blessings, and, as such, should be one of the most copious sources Of our joy. Indeed I know of no evil, the removal Of which should excite in us a higher degree Of plea sure. For in considerations of this kind, are we not usually influenced by circumstances Are not our feelings usually affected according to the situ ation, or the magnitude, or the importance of these '3 Are they not more or less elevated as the evil unde. Our contemplation has been more or less produc tive Of misery, or more or less productive Of guilt? Are they not more or less elevated, again, as we have found it more or less considerable in extent Our sensations will undoubtedly be in proportion to such circumstances, or our joy to the appreciation or mensuration of the evil which has been removed. To value the blessing Of the abolition as we Ought, or to appreciate the joy and gratitude which we ought to feel concerning it, we must enter' a little into the circumstances Of the trade. Our statement, however, of these 'needs not be long. A few pages will do all that is necessary! A glance only into such a subject as this will be sufficient to affect the heart; to arouse our indignation and our pity; and to teach us the importance of the victory Obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas ClarksonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259868118
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Vol. 2 of 2 The committee haying approved and printed the tables of questions, I began my tour. I had selected the southern counties from Kent to Cornwall for it. I had done this, because these included the great sta tions of the shipsof war in ordinary and as these Were all under the superintendence of Sir Charles Middleton, as comptroller of the navy, I could get an introduction to those-on board them. Secondly, because sea-faring people, when they retire from a marine life, usually settle in, some town or village, upon the coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Humanisation of Slavery in the Old Testament
Author: Thomas SchirrmacherPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532655770
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
• The Humanisation of Slavery in Old Testament Law by David L. Baker • Slavery, Human Dignity and Human Rights by John Warwick Montgomery • Slavery in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and Today by Thomas Schirrmacher Three scholars discuss slavery in the Old Testament and a Christian view of slavery. They argue, that slavery in the OT had not much in common with Roman- Greek, Muslim or modern European slavery, as the slaves where protected by the legal system. They believe that there is a road from the humanisation of slavery in the OT through the soft opposition against slavery in the New Testament to the abolition of slavery by Christians and in Christian nations. The last essay contains a longer section on “The Role of Evangelicals in the Abolition of Slavery“, that summarizes the research of the last decades showing that the uncorrupted oppositions by pious people and the power of the masses without direct political influence changed history, the first major human rights campaign of history.