Date: 1774
"I expect the incomparable fair one of Hamburg, that prodigy of beauty, and paragon of good sense, who has enslaved your mind, and inflamed your heart."
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Date: 1789
"Does not slavery itself depress the mind, and extinguish all its fire and every noble sentiment?"
preview | full record— Equiano, Olaudah [Gustavus Vasa] (c. 1745-1797)