Outalissi; a Tale of Dutch Guiana

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Dit bestand biedt, met een aantal hierna te noemen aanpassingen, een diplomatische weergave van Outalissi; a Tale of Dutch Guiana, dat anoniem werd gepubliceerd in 1826. De auteur is Chrisopher Edward Lefroy.

 

redactionele ingrepen

p. 247, noot: ‘See note R.’ → ‘See note T.’

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Outalissi; a tale of Dutch Guiana.

“Μετανοεῖτε ’Ιωάννης”!!!
ὁ βαπτιστὴς

London: J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly.

1826.

 

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OUTALISSI.

‘He scorn'd his own who felt another's woe.’ CAMPBELL.

 

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TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ.

THE MORAL WELLINGTON OF HIS COUNTRY,

AND SAVIOUR OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES,

IF CHRISTIANITY IS TRUE, AND REFORM SO LATE, AFTER

CENTURIES OF CRIME AND DEFIANCE OF GOD'S LAWS,

MAY YET AVERT HIS VENGEANCE,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES,

ILLUSTRATIVE of some of the hideous features of unreformed West Indian Slavery, its uniformly debasing influence upon the moral sensibilities of the European emigrant, wherever it remains unrestrained and unmodified by some extraneous authority, superior to and independent of the parties engaged in it; its daring antagonism and incompatibility with Christianity, when so left to

 

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itself, and therefore the certainty of its overthrow, sooner or later, like the Spanish tyranny in South America, with a confusion, and violence, and ruin to individuals, proportioned exactly to the pertinacity and obstinacy of their resistance to what are effectually irresistible, (viz.) the designs of the Almighty, if Christianity be indeed of Him;

Are inscribed,

By his very respectful and

Obedient humble servant,

THE EDITOR.

Dutch Guiana, January 1st, 1826.