+THOUGHTS+ UPON THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. --------------------- [PRICE ONE SHILLING.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +ADVERTISEMENT+. THE profits, if any, arising from the sale of this pamphlet, are appropriated to the use of the Society, established in London, for the support and encouragement of Sunday Schools, in the different counties of England. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +THOUGHTS+ UPON THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. ---------------------------- +BY JOHN NEWTON+, +RECTOR OF ST. MARY WOOLNOTH+. ---------------------------- MATT. vii. 12. 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. HOMO SUM—— ---------------------------- +LONDON+: PRINTED FOR J. BUCKLAND, IN PATER-NOSTER-ROW; AND J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD. M.DCC.LXXXVIII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ════════════════════════════════════════════════ +THOUGHTS+ +UPON THE+ +AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE+. ---------------------------- THE nature and effects of that unhappy and disgraceful branch of commerce, which has long been maintained on the Coast of Africa, with the sole, and professed design of purchasing our fellow-creatures, in order to supply our West-India islands and the American colonies, when they were ours, with Slaves; is now generally understood. So much light has been thrown upon the subject, by many able pens; and so many respectable persons have already engaged to use their utmost influence, for the suppression of a traffic, which contradicts the feelings of humanity; that it is hoped, this stain of our National character will soon be wiped out.