 | Paul Finkelman - 316 Seiten
...Revolution, Dr. Samuel Johnson, the English literary figure, chided the rebellious colonists by asking, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"31 Unfortunately, there were no comfortable answers to the question. The American revolutionaries... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 Seiten
...government continued its policy toward the colonies, Johnson asked: "If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?"135 Johnson thought it was the slaveholding American leaders, not the British, who were the... | |
 | Eli Sagan - 2001 - 652 Seiten
...already perceived the equivocation in liberalism, was unmerciful in underlining this moral ambiguity: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"44 Ambiguity and contradiction pile on top of contradiction and ambiguity: it was the future... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2002 - 176 Seiten
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 | Christopher Hibbert - 2002 - 420 Seiten
...guarded apology for having advised so disastrous an attack. PART TWO 8 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?' Samuel Johnson On the last day of November 1774, Tom Paine, then aged thirtyeight, 'an ingenious, worthy... | |
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes? 
