Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Rise and Decline of Commercial Slavery in America
Columbus, in his account of the discovery of the island of Hispaniola, thus speaks of the aborigines They are a loving, uncovetous people, so docile in all things, that I assure your highnesses I believe in all the world there is not a better people or a better country: they love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest and the gentlest way of talking in the world, and always with a smile.'
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