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PART III.

The Slavery of the Africans in the European
Colonies.

CHAP. I. Imaginary scene in Africa.--Imaginary conversation with an
African.--His ideas of Christianity.--A Description of a body of
slaves going to the ships.--Their embarkation.--Chap. II. Their
treatment on board.--The number that annually perish in the
voyage.--Horrid instance at sea.--Their debarkation in the
colonies.--Horrid instance on the shore.--Chap. III. The condition
of their posterity in the colonies.--The lex nativitatis
explained.--Its injustice.--Chap. IV. The seasoning in the
colonies.--The number that annually die in the seasoning.--The
employment of the survivors.--The colonial discipline.--Its
tendency to produce cruelty.--Horrid instance of this
effect.--Immoderate labour, and its consequences.--Want of food
and its consequences.--Severity and its consequences.--The forlorn
situation of slaves.--An appeal to the memory of Alfred.--Chap. V.
The contents of the two preceding chapters denied by the
purchasers.--Their first argument refuted.--Their second
refuted.--Their third refuted.--Chap. VI. Three arguments, which
they bring in vindication of their treatment, refuted.--Chap. VII.
The argument, that the Africans are an inferiour link of the chain
of nature, as far as it relates to their genius, refuted.--The
causes of this apparent inferiority.--Short dissertation on African