Although cautious, even supplicatory, in tone, the petition speaks to the desperation of the "unhappy State and Condition" in which slaves live: "let their behavior be what it will, neither they ...
Adopting a supplicatory tone, she requested “that he would not be angry with her for writing to him in the way she has”. She implored him for guarantees: “Don’t you think it would be nice ...
representing politicians in their various supplicatory or other endeavours. Roopnaraine commenced the chapter with a review of E. R. Burrowes’s ‘Guyana, Land of the Dolorous Guard,’ which he ...