Honest Labourer (ballad)
Overview
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#19), which tells the story of a meeting between a poor labourer and a wealthy noble.
A rich man meets a poor labourer and asks him how he manages to feed his wife and his large family. The labourer explains that he and his wife work very hard, waste nothing and never fight.
Quotations
... [Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own. 
The Rights of British Colonists Asserted (1764)
If we are not represented, we are slaves.
Report on the Sugar Act (13 June 1764)