A particular account of the treatment these unhappy _Africans_ receive in the _West-Indies_ was lately published, which, even by those who, blinded by interest, seek excuses for the Trade, and endeavour to palliate the cruelty exercised upon them, is allowed to be a true, though rather too favourable representation of the usage they receive, which is as follows, _viz._ ‘The iniquity of the Slave-trade is greatly aggravated by the inhumanity with which the Negroes are treated in the Plantations, as well with respect to food and clothing, as from the unreasonable labour which is commonly exacted from them. To which may be added the cruel chastisements they frequently suffer, without any other bounds than the will and wrath of their hard task-masters. In _Barbadoes_, and some other of the Islands, six pints of _Indian_ corn and three herrings are reckoned a full weeks allowance for a working slave, and in the System of Geography it is said, _That in_ Jamaica _the owners of the Negroe-slaves, set aside for each a parcel of ground, and allow them_ Sundays _to manure it, the produce of which_, with sometimes a few herrings, or other salt-fish, _is all that is allowed for their support_. Their allowance for clothing in the Islands is seldom more than six yards of osenbrigs each year: And in the more northern Colonies, where the piercing westerly winds are long and sensibly felt, these poor _Africans_ suffer much for want of sufficient clothing, indeed some have none till they are able to pay for it by their labour. The time that the Negroes work in the _West-Indies_, is from day-break till noon; then again from two o’clock till dusk: (during which time they are attended by overseers, who severely scourge those who appear to them dilatory) and before they are suffered to go to their quarters, they have still something to do, as collecting of herbage for the horses, gathering fuel for the boilers, _etc._ so that it is often half past twelve before they can get home, when they have scarce time to grind and boil their _Indian_ corn; whereby it often happens that they are called again to labour before they can satisfy their Hunger. And here no delay or excuse will avail, for if they are not in the Field immediately upon the usual notice, they must expect to feel the Overseer’s Lash. In crop-time (which lasts many months) they are obliged (by turns) to work most of the night in the boiling-house. Thus their Owners, from a desire of making the greatest gain by the labour of their slaves, lay heavy Burdens on them, and yet feed and clothe them very sparingly, and some scarce feed or clothe them at all, so that the poor creatures are obliged to shift for their living in the best manner they can, which occasions their being often killed in the neighbouring lands, stealing potatoes, or other food, to satisfy their hunger. And if they take any thing from the plantation they belong to, though under such pressing want, their owners will