The pirate, in the one case, soothes his conscience with the thought, that the bloody savages merit no better treatment, than they are receiving at his hands:-but the pirate, in the other, can have no such plea-for they, whom he kidnaps, are untainted with crime.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
Dey kidnaps her an' steals her 'way from her throne an' fetches her hyar ter Wake County in slavery.
"Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2"
Work Projects Administration
It is his gayest season, since hardly a day passes but some friend kidnaps him from his presbytery that lies snug and silent back of the crumbling wall which hides both his house and his wild garden from the gaze of the passer-by.
"A Village of Vagabonds"
F. Berkeley Smith