West Indian Fables By James Anthony Froude Explained By J. J. Thomas
West Indian Fables By James Anthony Froude Explained By J. J. Thomas
Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
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His scoffs at British "virtuous benevolence, " and hisimputation of ingratitude to the Negro in respect of that self-samebenevolence, do not refer to any theocratic, self-contracted, abstract, or idyllic condition of servitude. They pin his meaning down [166] tothat particular phase when slavery had become not only "the sum, " butthe very quintessence, "of all human villainies. " At its then phase, slavery had culminated into being a menace, portentous and far encroaching, to not only the moral... life but the verycivilization of the higher types of the human family, so debasing andblighting were its effects on those who came into even toleratingcontact with its details. The indescribable atrocities practised onthe slaves, the deplorable sapping of even respectable principles inowners of both sexes--all these stood forth in their ineffablehideousness before the uncorrupted gaze of the moral heroes, sons ofBritain and America, and also of other countries, who, buckling on thearmour of civilization and right, fought for the vindication of themboth, through every stern vicissitude, and won the first grand, ever-memorable victory of 1838, whereof we so recently celebrated thewelcome Jubilee!
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