...likely to condemn insurrections in general. The key to his feelings is found in his indignant cry, ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' (1b.) He hated slavery as perhaps no man of his time hated it. While the Quakers, who were almost...

...See ante, ii. 27, 312. The drivers of negroes. the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny ', he says, 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes1?1 and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked, 'Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn...

...at the slave-trade, but at British Commerce. It was of .men such as these that Johnson said : — ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' Boswell's Johnson, iii. 201. At the same meeting it was resolved that there should be no exportation...

...continuation by Armstrong, p. 405. Dr. Johnson's rather insolent question was not altogether unwarranted : " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes ? " deemed and considered as servants for life, or slaves ; and that all servitude for life, or slavery...

...whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his "Taxation no Tyranny,'1 he says, " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes he asked, "Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English?"...

...slaves." Virginia and the Carolinas had shown impatience of oppression. " How is it," asked Johnson, " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? The slaves should be set free ; they may be more grateful and honest than their masters," Lord North...

...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 negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr Wilkes he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English?"...

...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 negroes ? " and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes,b he asked, " Where did Beckford and Trecothick leam English...

...likely to condemn insurrection in general. The key to his feelings is found in bis indignant cry, ' How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' He hated slavery as perhaps no man of his time hated it. In 1756, he described Jamaica as a ' place...

...appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says, ' that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, 1 ' and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked, ' Where did Beckf ord and Trecothick learn English...