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" Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ... - Sida 211
efter Lindley Murray - 1815 - 264 sidor
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Slave Girls

Wensley Clarkson - 1996 - 308 sidor
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature

Juda Bennett - 1996 - 168 sidor
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The Blacks in Canada: A History

Robin W. Winks - 1997 - 582 sidor
...Canada's own Negro history. The poet Cowper, in celebrating Justice Mansfield's decision, thought that "Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free." This was adequate poetry but inaccurate current events, for Mansfield's decision freed no substantial...
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader

Karen L. Kilcup - 1998 - 272 sidor
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1162 sidor
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Classical Economics: January 1819 to January 1820, Volym 1

Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 520 sidor
...disadvantage, with that of the United States on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that — 'Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs...they are free! They touch our country — and their shackles fall. That's noble! and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.' Of this, however,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sidor
...bk. I The Sofa' I. 749; cl. Cowley 2 59:12, Proverbs (»11:15 20 Slaves cannot breathe in Kngland, if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. The Task ( l 78 s I bk. 2 'The Timepiece' I. 40; cf. Anonymous I8:S 21 Hngland, with...
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African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and ...

Helena Woodard - 1999 - 206 sidor
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Slave Narratives (LOA #114): Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat ...

William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - 2000 - 1066 sidor
...GARRISON. RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM; OR, THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. "Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs...moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. " COWPER. LONDON: WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND. i860. Ellen Craft, the fugitive slave....
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Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century

Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 sidor
...guaranteed to Britons with that denied to the people they enslave abroad (2.37-44). Cowper's reminder that "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free," plays on the arguments and language used at the precedent-setting 1772 trial of James Somerset, whose...
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