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Excerpt from The Brazilian Slave Trade, and Its Remedy: Shewing the Futility of Repressive Force Measures; Also, How Africa and Our West Indian Colonies May Be Mutually Benefited
Perhaps history offers no parallel instance of a heartfelt and disinterested attempt at reparation for a great wrong, ' such as has been manifested, of late years, by Great Britain towards the af?icted and aggrievedchildren of Africa. Blinded, alas, for too long a period by sordid interests, we regarded them only in the light of brutes, to be disposed of according to their physical qualifications for our purposes nor stopped we to enquire, whether they possessed human emotions, or germs for improvement Nay, worse than the very nations we now so unsparingly vituperate, we were the foremost at one time in'ereating the cruelties; and for a long course of years the British Government and Legislation steadily devoted their efforts to the extension of the Slave Trade the settlements on the Gold Coast were formed, for this avowed object.2 We fostered and strength ened the traffic, and actually strove to become the great slave agents and carriers for the rest of the world, and that from a base and very narrow motive; not even the larger motive that the slave holders had of benefiting by the labour of the We bought them in Africa and threw.
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