 As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their dark and melancholy visages brightened up. They perceived something of sympathy and kindness in our looks, which they had not been accustomed to; and feeling instinctively that we were friends,...  Africa and the American Flag - Page 227by Andrew Hull Foote - 1854 - 390 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...pleased to take this hateful badge out of his hand, and I have kept it ever since as a horrid memorial of reality, should I ever be disposed to forget the scene...accustomed to, and feeling instinctively that we were frionds, they immediately began to shout and clap their hands. One or two had picked up a few Portuguese... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...to take this hateful badge out of his hand ; and I have kept it ever since, as a horrid memorial of reality, should I ever be disposed to forget the scene...perceived something of sympathy and kindness in our looks, and feeling instinctively that we were friends, they immediately began to shout and clap their hands.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...visages brightened up. They perceived $bmething of sympathy and kindness in our looks, which they bad not been accustomed to, and feeling, instinctively,...were friends, they immediately began to shout and clan their hands. One or two bad picked up a few Portuguese words, and cried 'out, " Vira! r.ira /... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 262 pages
...and seemed eager to exercise it. "As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their melancholy visages brightened up. They perceived something of sympathy and kindness in our looks, to which they had not been accustomed ; and feeling instinctively that we were friends, they immediately... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook it over them, and seemed eager to exercise it. As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, The first persons who liberated their slaves, and labored to effect the abolition of the slave-trade,... | |
 | John Lawrence - Slave trade - 1854 - 230 pages
...whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook it over them, and seemed eager to exercise it. As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them their dark and melancholly visages brightened up. They perceived something of sympathy and kindness in our looks which... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...whenever he heard the slightest noise below, he shook it over them, and seemed eager to exercise it. As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down...sympathy and kindness in our looks, which they had not bean accustomed to, and feeling, instinctively, that we were friends, they immediately began to shout... | |
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