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The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the

CHAPTER III
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The children of the other we daily carry from off the land of their nativity; like sheep to the slaughter, to return no more.

We tear them from every object of their affection, or, sad alternative, drag them together to the horrors of a mutual servitude! We keep them in the profoundest ignorance.

We gall them in a tenfold chain, with an unrelenting spirit of barbarity, inconceivable to all but the spectators of it, unexampled among former and other nations, and unrecorded even in the bloody registers of heathen persecution.

Such is the conduct of us enlightened Englishmen, reformed Christians! Thus have we profited by our superior advantages, by the favour of God, by the doctrines and example of a meek and lowly Savior.

Will not the blessings which we have abused loudly testify against us?
Will not the blood which we have shed cry from the ground for vengeance upon our sins ?" In the same year, James Ramsay, vicar of Teston in Kent, became also an able, zealous, and indefatigable patron of the African cause.


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