A dissuasion to Great-Britain and the colonies, from the slave trade to Africa — John Shaqi
A dissuasion to Great-Britain and the colonies, from the slave trade to AfricaSwan, James
Philosophy
A dissuasion to Great-Britain and the colonies, from the slave trade to Africa
Swan, James
Slave trade -- Early works to 1800
A great deal more could be mentioned on the thousands of advantages
that may arise to the interest of _Britain_ and the Plantations in
abolishing this wicked Trade: However, I shall detain my Readers no
longer on this head, but as proposed,
Conclude the whole with some short admonitions to those concerned,
and a method to put this Trade to _Africa_ upon a just and lawful
footing. I advise every Merchant and Ship-master who is in this Trade
of Man-slaving to renounce and give it up. What arguments or reason,
pray, can be advanced for his justification, when he sees such threats
and curses against him, particularly mentioned in the first head? Why
should any person incur the penalties of GOD’s Law so daringly for the
sake of gain? Should they think themselves on a death-bed, what agonies
and troubles of mind must they undergo in the thoughts of enslaving so
many miserable creatures, of murdering so many thousands of innocent
people in the wars they occasion, treacherously taking them out of
their own country, using them barbarously, massacring numbers of them
in all the cruel ways imaginable on the passage, selling them for life,
and depriving them even of a comfortable living, notwithstanding they
serve for nothing else; surely the judgment of GOD must come upon such
men who will thus use their own Brethren who were born to inherit the
same salvation with us, and if his judgment does not come upon them, it
will pursue their children unto the third and fourth generation, until
the riches that have been thus scandalously amassed be squandered away,
and they become as poor as these Negroes themselves, by selling of whom
such unjust gain was made. But this is only one way out of thousands
that GOD chuses to afflict his enemies in this world. And,
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