...whose whole-hearted devotion hardly admits that there were any spots on his literary sun, allows that ' his violent prejudice against our West Indian and...settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity.' What that prejudice was, we have Johnson's own words to show. ' In America there is little to be observed...

...Taxation no Tyranny, his 'answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,' he asks 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is of a different kind, and never...

...Columbus found at last reception and employment."1 This was not pure Toryism. " How is it," he asked, " that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? " 2 And once " when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, ' Here's to the...

...deference, thought that he discovered ' a zeal without knowledge.' Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, ' Here's...loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' When I said now to Johnson, that I was afraid I kept him. too late up. 'No, Sir, (said he,) I don't...

...specially enraged him was that the cry of "liberty" should be raised by slaveowners. "How is it" he asked "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" Nearly fifty years before the abolition of slavery was first discussed in Parliament, Johnson had maintained...

...deference thought he discovered a ' zeal without knowledge.' " Upon one occasion when in company with some very grave men at Oxford his toast was, ' Here's...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with...

...deference thought he discovered a ' zeal without knowledge.' " Upon one occasion when in company with some very grave men at Oxford his toast was, ' Here's...conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny he says, ' How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' and in his conversation with...

...Taxation no Tyranny, his 'answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,' he asks 'how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? ' The prejudice in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is of a different kind, and never...

...moneyed men and their ways, and with all his regard for the established order once gave as a toast, ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.' * He complained that ' the laws of Jamaica afford a negro no redress. His colour is considered as sufficient...

...without any compromise or qualification. ' Upon one occasion (says Boswell), when ' in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his 'toast was, "Here's...next insurrection of the 'negroes in the West Indies ".' Sterne, writing in 1766, is equally emphatic. Thus in a letter to Ignatius Sancho, an American...