 | 1857 - 692 sayfa
...and also I think at Goodrich Court. Darwin, in his Naturalists Voyage, writing in 1836, says : — " Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady,...screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves." With regard to the wooden engine preserved at Littlecote, not Neltlecote Hall, which I described in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 254 sayfa
...feelings when, passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but BRAZIL. suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have PERNAMBL'CO. stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten,... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 232 sayfa
...the Journal in 1845, Darwin speaks thus eloquently from his heart : " On the igth of August [1836], we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 sayfa
...inevitably have been long ago worn away, and without the bar there would have been no harbour. On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 sayfa
...inevitably have been long ago worn away, and without the bar, there would have been no harbour. On the 19th of August we finally left, the shores of Brazil. I...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted... | |
 | 1883 - 800 sayfa
...Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was oeing tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child...little boy six or seven years old struck thrice with a horsewhip, before I could interfere, on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 sayfa
...inevitably have been long ago worn away, and without the bar, there would have been no harbour. On the i9th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I...to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 sayfa
...inevitably have been long ago worn away and without the bar, there would have been no harbour. On the igth of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | 1909 - 574 sayfa
...inevitably have been long ago worn away and without the bar, there would have been no harbour. On the ipth of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I...boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse-whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - 356 sayfa
...poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. . . . Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady,...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... | |
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To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless... 
