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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African - Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Thomas Clarkson
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genius.--Poetry of an African girl.--Chap. VIII. The argument, that
they are an inferiour link of the chain of nature, as far as it
relates to colour, &c. refuted.--Examination of the divine writings
in this particular.--Dissertation on the colour.--Chap. IX. Other
arguments of the purchasers examined.--Their comparisons
unjust.--Their assertions, with respect to the happy situation of
the Africans in the colonies, without foundation.--Their happiness
examined with respect to manumission.--With respect to
holy-days.--Dances, &c.--An estimate made at St. Domingo.--Chap. X.
The right of the purchasers over their slaves refuted upon their own
principles.--Chap. XI. Dreadful arguments against this commerce and
slavery of the human species.--How the Deity seems already to punish
us for this inhuman violation of his laws.--Conclusion.

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ERRATA.

For _Dominique_, (Footnote 107) read _Domingue_.

N. B. In page 18 a Latin note has been inserted by mistake, under
the quotation of Diodorus Siculus. The reader will find the original
Greek of the same signification, in the same author, at page 49.
Editio Stephani.

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