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Show A PORTRAITURE OF SLAVERY, (:Jc. MANY schemes have been proposed for alleviating the miseries and evils produced by the enslavement of the African race in the United States. Possessors of slaves, as well as others, have investigated the subject with great industry and anxiety ; and all agree that something ought to be done. The suggestion of an infallible remedy is useless, if it be impossible to attain or apply it. Expor. tation to Africa, (the country to which the wisdom of their Creator has adapted their colour and faculties ; ) separate colonization on the public lands ; employment on national canals, roads, &:c. have been recommended. These projects arc most certainly impracticable, except partially:because their completion would require the volu11tary estrangement by its legal holders, of an immense quantity and value of what is generally though erroneously termed property-human liberty.* And in the present moral and intellectual condition of the slaves, the result would be perhaps of doubtful benefit. In examining this subject, I shall endeavour to be temperate, and to avoid indulging in the use of reprehensive acrimonious modes of expression. * The liberty of the black population in but a single ptate, ¥ esti· ml\ted at about thirty millions of dollars. ,,. ll |
