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thenish families . " A large part of this letter is in Noncon . Mem . ( iiL 266 *) but the passage on the Slave Trade is opniltcd . De Foe . In his Life by Dr .
Towers , ( Biog . Britt . v . 52 . ) is the following quotation from / £ eformation of Manners , a poem published by De Foe in 1701 . Amidst the vices of the age , having instanced those who burn
vessels to -cL frail ? I insurers , he acids , Others seek out to AfnVs torrid zone , And search the burning shores of Scrralone ; There in utisuffcrable heats they fry , And run vast risks to see the gold and die . The harmless natives basely they trepan , And barter bau les for the souls of men . The wretcnes they to Christian climes
brine o ' er , \ To serve worse heathens than they did before . The cruelties they suffer there are such , Amboyna ' s nothing , they ' ve outdone the Dutch . Cortez , Pizarro , Gusman , Penalae , Who < lrank the blood and sold of
Mexico , Who thirteen millions of souls destroyed , And left one-th rd of God ' s creation \ oid , By birth , for Nature ' s butcherydesign'd , Com ; . ar'd to these are merciful and kind-Death could their cruellest designs fulfil , Blood quench'd their thirst and it suffie'd to kill ¦ But these the tender coup-de-grace deny , And make men be ^ in vain tor leave to
qjc ; To moie than Spanish cruelty inciin'd , Torment the body , and debauch the mind ; The lin ^' iing life of slavery preserve , And \ i \ c \ y teach them both to sin and serve . In vain ihey talk to them of shades below , They fear no hell but where such Christians go . Do Foe , in 17 ~« > , according to his biographer , ( v . 71 . ) took another occasion to offer some represeiilftrions ' relative to the cruelty
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452 Forerunners in the Abolition of the Slate Trade .
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of the English planters toward their Negroes , and " arguments ^ support of the policy , as well as humanity , of a more mild and ^ nerous treatment of them . These xt
are introduced m The History and remarkable Life of the truly honourable Colonel Jacquc , Rev . Thomas Bacon , Rector oi St . Peter ' s in Talbot county , in the province of Maryland . I find
in the Journal Brtttannique , ( jj , 452 . ) that this clergyman publish . ed in 1750 , ci Four Sermons upon the great and indispensable Duty of all Christian Masters and Mis ' . tresses to bring up thiir Ncoroe Slaves in the Knowledge and Fear of God ; " also , two Sermons preached in his Parish to a Con . gregation of Negroes . Those who think that such
were so generally acknowledged as a clergyman ' s duties , that he : could acquire no distinction bj performing them , should look into Ramsay ' s Ci Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves , 8 vo . 1788 . " That pious and benevolent clergyman describes ( ch . 3 . sect . 4 . p . 1 / 3 . ; his own practice , and the hindrances interposed by the mas : ers , to his " public attempts to instruct slaves on his first
settlement as" a minister in the West-Indies / ' about 1770 . "It was quickly suggested and gcporallf believed , that he wanted to
interrupt the work of slaves , to give them time , forsooth , to say their prayers ; that he aimed at the makinp- of them Christians , to
render them incapable of beifl £ -m l . good slaves . In one word , fcL stood , in opinion , a rebel convict against the interest and majesty of plantership . " . . Such arc the few additions which I have been fortunate enoug h v *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/4/
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