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ARTICLE I . African Memoranda : relative to an Attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulctma , on the Westfni Coast of jtffrica , in the Tear 1792 . With a brief No * fice of th $ Neighbouring Tribes , Soil , Productions ^ & ( c
and some Observations on the Facility of colonizing that Part of Africa with a View to Cultivation ^ and the Introduction of Letters and Religion to its Inhabitants , but more " particularly qs the Means of gradually abolishing African ' Slavery * , By Capt . Philip B ^ ver * 4 to , pp . 500 . JBalcL wins , il , lls / 6 d . 18 Q 3-
Ir is a frequent and just remark , that most evils liave a tendency to correct themselves . In their beginning , they may be too inconsiderable to attract notice or excite fear , and rnay , oh that account , increase without opposition ; but they no sooner become enormous , than the very circumstance of their enormity occasions their removal ; just as the sulphureous vapours
which collect in and burden the atmosphere , do , in the same proportion in which they render it oppressive , breed the tempest which shall dissolve them , and restore the air to a state of purity . The great abuses of popery brought about the Reformation ; the tyranny of the Stuarts led to the glorious Revolution : and the horrors of the Slave-trade have raised such
sentiments in the breasts of mankind as will not , we are persuaded , cease to operate , until they have effected its abolition . To the slave-trade we are prepared to apply this general principle by the work before us , which is a narrative of the Bulam Association , that like the Sierra Leone Company was formed with a view to ascertain whether it were not practicable to
cultivate tropical productions on the coast of Africa , by means of its free natives ; and also , whether the Africans , by being employed in voluntary labours , and rewarded for them , might
frot , according to the invariable progress of society , be gradually civilized , and qualified to enjoy the blessings of religion and liberty ? The attempt to solve this important problem ( important , because involving the fate of myriads of human beings , ) by the Bularjna and Sierra Leone colonies ^ added to Other ef-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/37/
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