| Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 564
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - Страниц: 356
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal.' I(S As a result of these experiences and many others, Darwin imbibed a detestation of slavery and slaveholders... | |
| Sandra Harding - 1993 - Страниц: 548
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. 1 have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip (before 1 could interfere)... | |
| Stephen Jay Gould - 1994 - Страниц: 484
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...handed me a glass of water not quite clean. ... I was present when a kind-hearted man was on the point of separating forever the men, women, and little... | |
| Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - Страниц: 910
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...having handed me a glass of water not quite clean. His catalogue of 'heart-sickening atrocities' continued - deeds 'done and palliated by men, who profess... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1997 - Страниц: 500
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a litde boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2002 - Страниц: 234
...would palpitate throughout his life: I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. ... I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...having handed me a glass of water not quite clean. . . . Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children... | |
| A. N. Wilson - 2003 - Страниц: 778
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal . . . Darwin went on to say that these and similar atrocities took place in a Spanish colony where... | |
| David W. Shaw - 2004 - Страниц: 256
...I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto,...break the spirit of the lowest animal.... I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face.... | |
| Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - 1927 - Страниц: 824
...lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily...glass of water not quite clean ; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish... | |
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