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Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in Bristish National Development - Page xxix
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Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoires of His Life, Volume 2

Charles Kingsley - Authors, English - 1877 - 534 pages
...fifty pounds of them in a day. This place is full of glory — very lovely, and well kept up. ... " But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life, ed. by his wife [F.E ...

Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 528 pages
...fifty pounds of them in a day. This place is full of glory — very lovely, and well kept up. ... " But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life, ed. by his wife [F.E ...

Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 392 pages
...actual live salmon, over five pounds weight. This place is full of glory—very lovely, and well kept up "But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, Volume 2

Charles Kingsley - 1900 - 454 pages
...salmon, over five pounds' weight. This place is full of glory — very lovely, and well kept up. ... " But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain

Peter Fryer - History - 1984 - 652 pages
...his dislike of black people - 'specially the women'.91 And when he visited Sligo in 1860 he wrote: 'I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country . . . To see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much.'92 Not...
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Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian ...

Elsie Browning Michie - Authors, English - 1993 - 212 pages
...still could not avoid becoming imbricated in Victorian racist and imperialist logic. Kingsley writes: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Joyce, Race, and Empire

Vincent J. Cheng - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 362 pages
...media of cartoon and caricature. An 1860 visit to Sligo provoked a troubled Charles Kingsley to write: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles 32 of horrible country. I don't believe they are our fault. I believe . . . that they are happier,...
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The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South ...

Bernard Magubane - History - 1996 - 486 pages
...those who attacked the humanity of the Irish. In 1860, he visited Sligo in West Ireland and wrote, "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they were. But to...
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Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His ...

Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 440 pages
...860 Charles Kingsley, a historian and novelist at Cambridge University, after a trip to Ireland said "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of this horrible country.. .to see white chimpanzees is dreadful, if they were black, one would not see...
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Cultural and Literary Critiques of the Concepts of "race"

E. Nathaniel Gates - Race - 1997 - 422 pages
...what has become a celebrated passage, Charles Kingsley wrote to his wife of the poor Irish in l860: But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...horrible country. I don't believe they are our fault. I helieve there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, bener, more comfoctably...
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