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Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 7: September, 1831
No longer conscious that they are far behind those. With whom they dwell in the race. Oi improvement, their etlbrts will be made with the hope and with the assurance of success. They will no longer be objects oi charity, but dispensers of charity. They will no longer look to others as to their supe riors, but be regarded themselves as superiors. They will discipline themselves while they teach others; and while others show them respect, they will acquire a character which ought to be respected. And is it possible that they can look abroad upon the wide field for usefulness, enterprise, and honour; which will be. Spread out before them in Africa, and remain insensi ble to the innumerable, the mighty motives it presents to arouse their faculties and inspire, them with noble sentiments? Is there nothing stirring in the hope ot' suppressing the slave trade, -s0 long the reproach of Christendom - the terror and curse of Af rica - which has turned pale the features and made sick the heart of humanity - nothing to plant freedom, civilization and Christianity in a land where despotism, superstition and barba rism have unitedly, and for ages, held dark dominion - nothing to enlighten and regenerate a continent, making it the peace t'ul asylum, the rich heritage of men of colour, of all countries and for all time? Lave objects like these, pursued, no power to elevate the character and enlarge the mind?
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