...transportation thither. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." Although this resolution probably represented the prevailing sentiment in America as a whole, it was...

...English sovereign, that he " determined to open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." An interesting phase of slave labor and the slave trade is the activity of the colonial merchants in...

...the English sovereign, that " determined to open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." An interesting phase of slave labor and the slave trade is the activity of the colonial merchants in...

...king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting those...

...partly on the ground that he "determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." This passage, however, was omitted by the American Congress from the draft. But here we come against...

...Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting these...

...Declaration of Independence made it one of the chief articles of indictment against George the Third that he had " prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce." The non-importation covenant which the Continental Congress had...

...King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. "And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting those...

...transportation thither. . . . Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. Mr. Bancroft says that "these words express' precisely what had happened in Virginia, which, as well...

...Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative...to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce." (Writings of Jefferson, Vol. I, p. 19.) It is true that, from motives of prudence, this harsh denunciation...