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BISTORT ...JUSTP BIOGRAPHY.
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sir , Clapton , May £ ., 180 S , 1 " APPREHENP that you have 9 l scarcely any readers , who have Dot been impressed , according to their different opportunities of information , by the wrongs which
Africa ha $ endured frorh the iniquity of European and . especially of British commerce . Amongthose wrongs , which even humanity may incline us too soon to forget , none attracted more attention about 20
years ago , than that transaction , too justly called a massacre , which occurred in 17 ^ 7 , in the river of Calabar , ia considerable station for the slave-trade , in
Upper Guinea . Mr . Clarksqn in his IC History of the Abolition , " ( i . 305 , ) mentions this massacre . lie had the
first account qf it fioi > i a Moravian minister at Bristol , on his visit to th ^ t city , in J 7 S 7 , when he undertook his benevolent . mission , to explore u the secrets of the prison-house . " Mr . C . ftlso procured " authentic documents "
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and depositions , . from which he has formed an interesting relation of the atrocious deed , which well agrees with the following statement made to the House of Commons * I quote the l < Abridgment of the minutes of the
evidence taken before a committee of the whole house , to whom it was referred , to consider of the slave-trade /* l 7 £ > 0 . No . ii . P . 206 . " InrQld Calabar , river are two towns , £ ) ld Town a » d New JTown . A rival * ship in trade produced a jealousy
between the towns ; so that through -fear of each other , for a considerable time , no canoe would leave their towns to go up thev river for slaves ; which happened in 1767 . Sievep slu ' ps [ of Liverpool , Bristol and Xtondpn , } lay off the point which separates tte towns ; six of the captains invited the people of both towns
on board on a certain day ,, as if to reconcile them ,: at the same time agreed with the people of ' New ^ Towii to cut off the Old Town people , who should remain on board the next morning . The ^ Rld Town p eople persuaded q £ the sincerity of th « ' captains * proposal , went bn board in great numbers . Next morning , at 8 o'clock , one o : the ships fired a gun as ft signal to commence
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MONTHLY jREPOSlTORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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AN -ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE AT CALABAR , AND . OF TWO AFRICAN PRINCES ^ W | 1 O WERE ENSLAVED ^ ND BROUGHT ? TO ENGL ^ D I "WITH ' AN ORIGINAL LKTTEIt FROM ONE OF a ; HEM , TO , T « E JiEV . CHARLES ; WESLEY . BY Mtt . RU . TT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/1/
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