 | Alexander Falconbridge - Abolitionists - 1788 - 78 pages
...'thing that rendered their fituation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, wasfo covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded...refembled a flaughter-houfe. It is not in the power of the human imagination, to piclure to itfelf a fituation more dreadful or difgufling. Numbers of the... | |
 | sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.) - 1838 - 244 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
 | bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Slave trade - 1838 - 244 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Africa, West - 1839 - 274 pages
...mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture to itself a situation more dreadful or more disgusting. " Numbers of the slaves having fainted, they were... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Africa - 1840 - 530 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - History - 1864 - 260 pages
...description of the scene below, adds, " The deck or floor of their rooms resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture to itself a situation more dreadful or disgusting. Numbers of the slaves fainted and were carried on deck,... | |
 | William Law Mathieson - Great Britain - 1920 - 338 pages
...cause an amount of time, energy and close personal attention which is surgeon on a slave-ship : " It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture to itself a situation more dreadful or disgusting." — Falcon bridge's Account of the Slave Trade, p.... | |
 | John Coleman De Graft-Johnson - Social Science - 1986 - 240 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 128 pages
...fevers and fluxes which generally carry off great numbers of them. . . . The floor of their rooms was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination... | |
 | Katherine Kemi Bankole - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 280 pages
...thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse (d'Auvergne 1933, 27). They expected a... | |
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But the excessive heat was not the only thing that rendered their situation intolerable. The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a... 
