An Address on West India Emancipation
| Preis: | 10.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Willson, James R.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from An Address on West India Emancipation: Delivered on the First of August, 1838, Before the Union Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia "Rejoice with them that do rejoice; and weep with them that weep." To day there are in the British West India Islands five hundred thousand freemen, who were yesterday slaves. They were nominally apprenticed freemen, but really slaves. To day they are in the full enjoyment of all the rights which belong to the free. At the hour of twelve, last night, their chains fell off, and their hearts are now overflowing with joyful emotions, awakened by the great deliverance that God hath wrought for them. After the hour of midnight, this morning, the stars shone on those islands with more brilliancy, and the moon with greater splendor; their sun rose and shone to-day with a brighter effulgence; the gales among their lemon and orange groves breathe a sweeter fragrance; the tints of the flowers that adorn their fields and gardens, have put on more softness and beauty, and the feathered songsters pour forth floods of sweeter melody from the groves. The emancipated thousands oft raise their free arms toward heaven in joyful wonder that they can now call them their own, and exert their energies according to their own volitions, and for their own interest. In transports of gladness, parents embrace their children, husbands their wives, and children their parents as their own, from whom they cannot now be separated by the will of a cruel master. "God hath done great things for them, whereof they are glad," and he commands us to rejoice with them. The spirit of slavery must have blighted the charitable sympathies of the heart that refuses to sympathize in their joys. We are also called to weep with them that weep. In our own land, more than two millions of our race are still groaning in cruel, relentless, and almost hopeless bondage. They hear only the sound of the lash, and the clanking of their chains. The Southern winds that bear on their wings the songs of the free, are at the same time charged with the mournful wailings of the wretched slave. 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.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
