English: "The husband and wife, after being sold to different purchasers, violently separated.... never to see each other more."
Identifier: preliminaryessay00bran (find matches)
Title: A preliminary essay, on the oppression of the exiled sons of Africa. Consisting of animadversions on the impolicy and barbarity of the deleterious commerce and subsequent slavery of the human species; to which is added, A desultory letter written to Napoleon Bonaparte, anno Domini, 1801
Year: 1804 (1800s)
Authors: Branagan, Thomas, 1774-1843 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subjects: Slavery Black race
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the author, by J. W. Scott
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The husband and ivife^ after being sold to different p,ur- dmseis^ violently separated....nev€r to see each other more. O^THE OPPRESSION OF THE EXILED SONS OF AFRICA- CONSISTING OF ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE IMPOLICY AND BARBA-RITY OF THE DELETERIOUS COMMERCE ANDSUBSEQUENT SLAVERY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES; TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DESULTORY LETTER WRITTEA TONAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ANNO DOMINI, 1801. By THOMAS BRANAGAN, Late Slave-trader from Africa, and Planter from Antieua ; who,from conscientious motives, relinquished a luciative situationin that island; and now from a deep sense of duty, publisherto the world the tragical scenes, of which he was a daily spee*tator, and in which he was unhappily concerned. PHILADELPHIA : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY JOHN W. SCOTT,Na. 27, BANk-STREET. 1804. CONTENTS. Advertisement. Page 5 Jieuiarks inticductojy to t/ie Poem on SUn^ery, 9 Chap. I. General vicnv of the Slavery of Madei-n Ti7ncs. 29 Chap. II. Stiictiires on the State of Slarvery-.ammg the A^atio7is ofAnpreliminaryessay00bran
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