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THOUGHTS
UPON THE
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
THE profits, if any, arising from the sale ofthis pamphlet, are appropriated to the use of theSociety, established in London, for the supportand encouragement of Sunday Schools, in thedifferent counties of England.
ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU,DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM: FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
THOUGHTS
UPON THE
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
THE nature and effects of that unhappyand disgraceful branch of commerce,which has long been maintained on the Coastof Africa, with the sole, and professed designof purchasing our fellow-creatures, in orderto supply our West-India islands and the Americancolonies, when they were ours, withSlaves; is now generally understood. So muchlight has been thrown upon the subject, bymany able pens; and so many respectable personshave already engaged to use their utmostinfluence, for the suppression of a traffic, whichcontradicts the feelings of humanity; that itis hoped, this stain of our National characterwill soon be wiped out.
2If I attempt, after what has been done, tothrow my mite into the public stock of information,it is less from an