Africa
place · 12 works · 15 mentions · 18 anchored passages
the coast of Africa · the region of Africa
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Africa, invoked as the origin of the enslaved labour discussed in the argument about intelligence, freedom, and the justification of slavery.
Is the white population of the world justified in converting to its own use the labour of Africa, on account of a superiority of intellect?
The Brazils, Cuba or Africa itself, would supply it with ample employment for the furor liberandi.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The continent named as the source of the trade regulated by the 1698 statute discussed at length.
The act is entitled, “An Act to settle the Trade to Africa.
“Whereas, the Trade to Africa is highly beneficial and advantageous to this kingdom and to the Plantations and Colonies thereunto belonging.
“And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the four-and-twentieth day of June, one thousand six hundred ninety-and-eight, it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the subjects of his majesty’s realms of England, as well as the said Company, to trade from England or any of his majesty’s plantations or colonies in America to the coast of Africa, between Blanco and Cape Mo …
Letters to Lucilius
The continent/province associated with Scipio's death and his ancestors' conquest of Carthage.
This saying made him equal to his ancestors and did not suffer the glory fated for the Scipios in Africa to be broken off.
And I shall exhort you the more easily if I show that not only brave men have despised this moment of breathing out the soul, but that certain men, cowardly in other things, have in this matter equalled the spirit of the bravest—like that Scipio, the father-in-law of Gnaeus Pompey, who, carried back to Africa by a contrary wind, when he saw his own ship taken by the enemy, ran himself through with …
let the loyalty of the men of Utica too, broken by misfortunes, give way, and let the fortune of his name desert Scipio in Africa.
On the Nature of the Gods
Continental part of the earth cared for by the gods
But if they take thought for those who dwell, as it were, in a kind of great island which we call the orb of the earth, they take thought also for those who hold the parts of that island, Europe, Asia, Africa.
Institutes of Roman Law
Region named as an early site of Roman trade with foreigners.
The moment that she began to trade with the foreigner, whether in Italy, Sicily, or Africa, she must have seen that her own Jus Civile was an impossible basis for trading relations.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Continent whose coastal inhabitants are cited as free users of nearby waters, and site of wars contemporaneous with Portuguese discovery.
It was during the reign of King John, in the year of our Lord 1477, at the time of the wars in Africa, that the Portuguese began to push their discoveries first into the more distant parts of the Ocean.
Adversus Judaeos
A region named among the places whose inhabitants have believed in Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
Apologeticum
Region where infants were openly sacrificed to Saturn.
Infants were sacrificed to Saturn in Africa, openly, down to the proconsulship of Tiberius, who exposed the very priests upon the trees of his temple — those trees that overshadowed their crimes — on votive crosses, the soldiery of our own country being witness, which performed that very office for that proconsul.
De Anima
Region occupied by the Phoenicians, cited in the migration argument.
But we find, even in the Commentaries on Human Antiquities, that the human race has gradually grown beyond measure, while the Aborigines, or wanderers, or exiles, or any glory-seekers occupy lands — as the Scythians occupied the Parthian lands, as the Temenidae the Peloponnese, as the Athenians Asia, as the Phrygians Italy and the Phoenicians Africa — while there are also solemn migrations, which …
De Pallio
Continent/region that is home to Carthage and setting of several historical anecdotes.
Thus too your sister city near at hand was wont to clothe herself, and wherever else in Africa Tyre had set foot.
The Scythians overflow the Persians, the Phoenicians belch forth into Africa, the Phrygians bring forth the Romans, the Chaldaean seed is brought up into Egypt;
Scorpiace
The Roman province where the popularity of Greek athletic games has recently become evident.
Those games — the contentious solemnities and superstitious contests of the Greeks, both of religions and of pleasures — with what favour the world celebrates them, has now become plain in Africa too.
Law in a Free State
Continent named as the location of the Anglo-German Convention cited in the taxation discussion.
But it would be impossible to say with even approximate precision how much benefit I have derived from the Anglo-German Convention in Africa, or from the Egyptian Occupation, or the Burmese War.