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, Forerunners in the Abolition of the Slave Trade * 451
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Inevitable designations , but upon conjectural foundations , whereby things wished may be promoted , and such as are feared , may more probably be prevented /' Among the former , he anticipates ihe time , —
iVhen Africa shall ru > rrvore sell out their blacks Jo make slaves and drudges to the American Vr&cte , and adds the following explanation : — " That is when African countries shall no longer make it a common trade to sell away their people to serve in the drudgery of American plantations , And that may come to pass whenever they shall be well civilized , find acquainted with arts and affairs .
sufficient to employ people in their countries . If also they should be converted to Christianity , but especially to Mahometism , for then they would never sell those of their religion to be slaves unto Christians . " It should be added that this " author in his " Vulgar Errors , ' ch . x—xii . b . 6 . Of the blackness of Negroes , &c . ably vindicates them against the imputation of a curse
derived from their progenitor Canaan . Nor , amidst many ingenious
conjectures on the causes of the negro colour , does he give the least . hint of their natural inferiority to whites . It is wdl known that religionists and professed philosophers , in later times , have advanced these contemptible arguments in the cause ° f negro slavery . - Reti . Francis CtrjW , an ejected ^ mister , who emigrated to the ? Vest Indies . In Calamy ' s Account ( lv - 7 ^ 3 , ) is a letter from thi $ < lvine , dated March 7 , 168 ? , torn Port Royal , then the capital ^ Jamaica * I could not read
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the following descriptions in this letter , without applying ., with the variation of-a word , the contrast at the close of Thomson ' s Winter : —
The Negro s share In life was gall and bitterness of soul : ? while luxury lay promptin-r his low thought : To form unic . l wants . " This is one of the most expensive , dear-places in the known world for all manner of provisions , and yet * tis the most proud and prodigal phice that ever i beheld ,
especially it is so as to the women among us . For a cooper ' s wife shall go forth , in the * best flowered silks * and richest silver and ^ pld lace that England can a , flk > rcl , with
a couple of negroes at her tail , there being five blacks to one white . The greatest trade of this place , lies in bringing of these poor creatures from Guinea hitherf to sell them to . the fume
plantations , and to the Spanish factors , that buy them at 20 ^ per head ^ or thereabouts . Thev corneas naked as they were born , and the buyers look in their mouth s ^ and survey their joints as if they were horses hi a inarket . We have few other
servants here but these slaves who are bought with our money , except seme from Newgate . " Mr . Crow was a zealous Presbyterian , yet iL by a year ' s preach
ing / he was not aware of having " converted one soul , " though lie preached < 4 fundamental truths and vitals of Christianity , " beginning with " ' s misery by nature . " Here were also Quaktrs
Anabaptists ? and lndep * ndtnts ^ but the people are described as < c not caring that full prooi . should be made or any ministry among them , in following them c' > se , for reforming loose lives aiu hea-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/3/
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