 | Leslie M. Harris - 2004 - 393 Seiten
...British powerful rhetorical and military weapons against them during the war. Samuel Johnson chided, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" More dangerous to the American cause were the British offers of freedom to slaves. In 1775, Lord Dunmore,... | |
 | Michał Rozbicki - 1998 - 240 Seiten
...slavery as a metaphor for British tyranny. "If slavery be thus fatally contagious," ran the argument, "how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?" Perhaps, it was suggested, the Revolutionary leaders should decide "that the slaves should be set free,... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 2003 - 240 Seiten
...which he took aim at colonial presumption. The work is best remembered for its rebuke of hypocrisy: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" No less revealing is the introductory assault on the entire worldview of the Americans. In contrast... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 Seiten
...calls for American rights. From England, the literary lion Samuel Johnson posed the obvious question: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Jefferson, indicted by his own soaring rhetoric, might better be described as schizophrenic than hypocritical... | |
 | Malcolm Muggeridge - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...There's a wonderful saying of Dr Johnson that wise and good man - that I like very much: 'Why,' he asks, 'is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of slaves?' Human Life Review, 1977 Systematically, stage by stage, our way of life had been dismantled,... | |
 | Stephen Tomkins - 2003 - 214 Seiten
...They called for liberty, but already had as much as most English people and, anyway, 'How is it dial we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Wesley read it, fell for it and plagiarized it. He edited it into a pamphlet entitled A Calm Address... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 Seiten
...and gave it a new purpose that it had not possessed before. SLAVERY DEFENDED Liberty for Slaveholders How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 IN THE YEAR 1852, 3. Louisiana cotton farmer named Edwin Epps hired a... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 Seiten
...colonists. However, his hatred of hypocrisy led him to make one shrewd hit at the American patriotic case. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"* Johnson hated the institution of slavery and he knew that almost none of the American leaders attacked... | |
 | Harriet C. Frazier - 2004 - 228 Seiten
...others. Dr. Johnson's pithy remarks in 1777 on slaveholding American patriots capture this paradox: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Johnson continued his opposition to slavery by observing, "An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty... | |
 | A. N. Wilson - 2003 - 772 Seiten
...the next insurrection of negro slaves in the West Indies.' (Of the Americans in 1777, he had asked, 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?') The same paradox which Tory Johnson had observed in the 1770s was on glaring display in the 1860s.... | |
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His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of... 
