 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pàgines
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad .' And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pàgines
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pàgines
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pàgines
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave , ' That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lung! Receive our air, that moment they are free; They... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pàgines
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | Prince Hoare - 1828 - 456 pàgines
...Page 138. " he becomes free.'' " We have no slaves at home. Then why abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...they are free : They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. — Spread it... | |
 | 1924 - 594 pàgines
...(955-6)]. THE SLAVE IN ENGLAND. — It was no idle boast of William Cowper's — "Slaves cannot live in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free — but that was in 1783, more than a decade after Lord Mansfield had said in the case of the Negro,... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 344 pàgines
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for... | |
 | Michel Fabre - 1991 - 388 pàgines
...represents an early, important, and for a time the only, cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In... | |
 | Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - 1993 - 318 pàgines
...Americans' own hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free! / They touch our country, and their shackles fall" (Task, 1836-1837, Book II, line 40). By act of Parliament and official decree, England... | |
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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. 
