"The minds of these, our fellow-creatures, that are now drowned in ignorance, being thus opened and improved, the pale of reason would be enlarged; Christianity would receive new strength; liberty new subjects."
— Ramsay, James (1733-1789)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed and Sold by James Phillips
Date
1784
Metaphor
"The minds of these, our fellow-creatures, that are now drowned in ignorance, being thus opened and improved, the pale of reason would be enlarged; Christianity would receive new strength; liberty new subjects."
Metaphor in Context
The minds of these, our fellow-creatures, that are now drowned in ignorance, being thus opened and improved, the pale of reason would be enlarged; Christianity would receive new strength; liberty new subjects. The slave trade, in its present form the reproach of Britain, and threatening to hasten its downfal, might be made to take a new shape, and become ultimately a blessing to thousands of wretches, who, left in their native country, would have dragged out a life of miserable ignorance; unknowing of the hand that framed them; unconscious of the reason of which they were made capable; and heedless of the happiness laid up in store for them.
(pp. 292-3)
(pp. 292-3)
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Citation
James Ramsay, An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (London: printed and sold by James Phillips, 1784). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/29/2011
