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of the following passage he may , however , be said to have described a Washington or a Whitjield . li The weiuht ol chains , number of stripes , hardness of labour , anil other effects of a master ' s cruelty , rnay make one servitude more miserable than another : but he is a slave who serves the best and gentlest man in the worM , as well as he who serves the wo £ st , and he does serve him ,, if he must
obey his commands and depend upon his will- ** —Discovrses ^ ch . 36 . Sect . 21 . To this may be added the introductory sentence of Locke on Government , which I had occassion to quote in jour 2 d . vol . ( p . S 3 . )
I proceed to some who may be more strictly called Forerunners . Camden , in his History of Elizabeth , first published in 1615 , has , in the following passage , shewn , at least , his suspicions that the Slave Trade was iniquitous * < c Hawkins had arrived at Saint John de Ullua in the Bay of Mexicowith five ships for coinrnerce , laden with merchandizes and black-moor slaves , which were now commonly bought in Africa by the Spaniards , and from their example by the English , and sold again in America , how kanestlij I know not . " *—Mist . Anno 1568 .
Hawkins , and the pious phraseology with which he committed himself to the voyage , are mentioned in your 2 d . vol . p . 532 . I have somewhere r-ead > that Hawkins himself sailed in the ship Jesus , and could not help applying to him the line first written for the disciples of Ignatius Loyola , Their i \ ame from Jesus , but their arts from Hell . Sir Thomas Herbert , a favourite
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450 forerunners in the Abolition of the Slave Trade .
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courtier of Charles the First , who attended his master to the scaffold published in 1634 , his < Travels begun in 1626 , into divers part ! of Africa and Asia Major . "
Visiting " the African Coast ? , Cortgn , Angola , " &c . he describes them as 4 t full of black wretches without law and reli gion ^ but rich in earth , abounding with the best
minerals and elephants ,, living upon rapine and villany , and worshipping Mokisses , Fetesiors , and deformed idols of devils , in shapes of dragons , goats , owls .
bats snakes , dogs , cats , and whatever their witches urge them to ,-in the most infernal postures , gaping , hooping , groveling , soiling and discolouring their carcasses
with juice of herbs ^ rice , roots and fruit , ' This description might be considered as an apology for trading in such commodities as thes . e stupid Africans . Our traveller had no such purpose ,
He immediately adds : — A dog was of that value once with them , that twentv negroes were exebang . ed for one : but now they make a bettor market of them , to send
their slaves to the Carribee Islands , and other parts of America ; a trade , by which ' tis to be feared Christians will make but little gain , ( since they have no care of converting their souls , ) such
merchandize being a great w among Christians , though practised by Jews and Gentiles . " \ H ar ' ru ' s Collection , 1705 , i . 405 . ) Sir Thomas Brovme , in hlS " Tracts , " published by Dr - >
afterwards Archbishop ,. Icfl mson , in 16 * 86 , soon after the au thor '* decease , has one ( No . xii . ) entitW < c A Prophecy concerning the Future State of several NatioitV not built upon fatal decree ? , or
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/2/
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