The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
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apart, for which we are dependent on them, we generally consider them as
good for nothing, and accordingly, treat them with greatest neglect. But be it remembered, that this cause is the cause of heaven; and that the father of them as well as of us, will not fail, at a future settlement, to adjust the account between us, with a dreadful attention to justice. Othello Baltimore, May 10, 1788. --_American Museum_, IV, 412-415. ESSAY ON NEGRO SLAVERY _No. II_ Upon no better principle do we plunder the coasts of Africa, and bring away its wretched inhabitants as slaves than that, by which the greater fish swallows up the lesser. Superior power seems only to produce superior brutality; and that weakness and imbecility, which ought to engage our protection, and interest the feelings of social benevolence in behalf of the defenceless, seems only to provoke us to acts of illiberal outrage and unmanly violence. The practice which has been followed by the English nation, since the establishment of the slave trade--I mean that of stirring up the natives of Africa, against each other, with a view of purchasing the prisoners |
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