单词 | a man and brother |
释义 | > as lemmasa man and (a) brother P5. a man and (a) brother: a person considered as a fellow member of the human race and thus deserving of equal rights; cf. man-and-brotherism n.The motto ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ originally appeared on the seal of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade under a depiction of a kneeling slave in chains. The design was approved by a Committee of the Society on 16 October 1787 and was later used on a cameo medallion, black on white, produced by Josiah Wedgwood, which became extremely popular as a personal ornament. ΚΠ 1787 Fair Minute Bks. Comm. Abolition Slave-trade I. (BL MS Add. 21254) 16 Oct. f. 16v Joseph Woods..on the Subject of a Seal for this Committee brought in a Specimen of a Design for the same, expressive of an African in Chains in a supplicating Posture with this Motto ‘Am I not a Man & a Brother’. 1835 J. Montgomery Songs on Abolition of Negro Slavery in Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. May 399/2 The Negro wakes to liberty..Read the great charter on his brow, ‘I am a man, a brother now.’ 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxviii. 39 With all the liberality of republican Europe rejoicing in his dignities as a man and a brother. 1923 Elevator Constructor Apr. (verso front cover) If you treat him fair, like a Man and a Brother, He isn't any Problem, at all! 1965 Negro Digest Oct. 11/1 Am I not a soldier, a man and a brother? Not if you are black, America answered. 2011 C. J. Trotman Frederick Douglass iv. 82 He..judged it [sc. the Liberty Party] to be exactly in the right place, at the right time, and with the right moral tone, which to Frederick meant that they saw the slave as both a man and a brother. < as lemmas |
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