Sublime

The foundation for liberal democracy, which makes the protection of individual rights the basis for political society, was thereby established. A century later, in Great Britain — where the conception of rights was tightly bound to biblical teachings — the defeat of the inter­national slave trade became a national priority. William Wilberforce, an

Wilberforce himself wrote a book called 'Practical Christianity' challenging Christians of the day to turn their faith into action believing all Christians should use their time to “find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate.” Simply putting the LAW OF CHRIST into effect by loving God and o

The white man behind it was Elihu Embree, an iron manufacturer and former slave owner who had evolved, at age thirty, into an abolitionist. Elihu mailed his newspapers to Southern politicians, intent on persuading them to end the horrors of slavery.

A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress. An Old Mortality, say rather an Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the image engraven in men’s bodies, the God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments.

Half our human effort is now wasted on mere transit, transport, and exchange; the commonwealth is a clearing-house of cases we never open and presents we never enjoy.

Plus tard, quand elle s’allie avec les puissances de l’Ancien Régime pour combattre la France révolutionnaire, et qu’elle se refuse à suivre l’exemple de cette dernière quant à l’abolition de l’esclavage (décrété par la Convention jacobine de février 1794, sur la lancée de la révolution des esclaves noirs guidés par Toussaint-Louverture), l’Anglete

“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”