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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African

PART III
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Their countrymen at home are generous and brave.

They support the sick, the lame, and the blind.

They fly to the succour of the distressed.

They have noble and stately buildings for the sole purpose of benevolence.

They are in short, of all nations, the most remarkable for humanity and justice." "But why then," replies the honest African, "do they suffer this?
Why is Africa a scene of blood and desolation?
Why are her children wrested from her, to administer to the luxuries and greatness of those whom they never offended?
And why are these dismal cries in vain ?" "Alas!" we reply again, "can the cries and groans, with which the air now trembles, be heard across this extensive continent?
Can the southern winds convey them to the ear of Britain?
If they could reach the generous Englishman at home, they would pierce his heart, as they have already pierced your own.


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