 | Robert Sutcliff - United States - 1811 - 328 pages
...the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause: and I beg, as a far vour, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know...shed, my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial ?" In the evening I arrived at Richmond, the capital of Virginia. In one respect, this has a good deal... | |
 | Charities - 1812 - 428 pages
...adventured niv life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause: and I beg, as a favour, that I may...immediately led to execution. I know that you have pre-determintd to shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial? 1 ' What could a Roman have... | |
 | Robert Sutcliff - History - 1812 - 312 pages
...endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause : and 1 beg, as a favour, that I may be immediately led to...shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial ?" In the evening I arrived at Richmond, the capital of Virginia. In one respect, this has a good deal... | |
 | Robert Sutcliff - Society of Friends - 1815 - 336 pages
...adventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause ; and I beg, as a favour, that I may...immediately led to execution. I know that you have pre-deter mined to shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial ?" In the evening I arrived... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1835 - 184 pages
...obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause ; and I beg, as a favor, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know that you have predetermined to shed iny blood: why then all this mockery of a trial V'—Sutcliff's Travels. POETRY. Eternal Nature ! when... | |
 | Charles Elliott - History - 1850 - 372 pages
...obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause; and I beg, as a favor, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know...shed my blood: why then all this mockery of a trial ?' " (Sutcliff's Travels.) The unjust sentiment which presumes every negro to be a slave, obtains in... | |
 | Charles Elliott - Slavery - 1850 - 358 pages
...obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause ; and I beg, as a favor, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know...shed my blood : why then all this mockery of a trial ?' " (Sutcliff's Travels.) The unjust sentiment which presumes every negro to be a slave, obtains in... | |
 | Charles Elliott - Slavery - 1851 - 370 pages
...obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause; and I beg, as a favor, that I may be immediately led to execution. I know...shed my blood: why then all this mockery of a trial?' " (Sutcliff's Travels.) The unjust sentiment which presumes every negro to be a slave, obtains in all... | |
 | Peter Brooks, Paul Gewirtz - Law - 1996 - 316 pages
...adventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice to their cause: and I beg, as a favour, that I may be...shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial? 10 But before analyzing the story itself, we must first determine what repression can mean as a concept... | |
 | John Henrik Clarke - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 142 pages
...ventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice to their cause; and I beg, as a favour, that I may be...shed my blood, why then all this mockery of a trial?" Styron very slyly entitled his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, evoking the image that his novel... | |
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