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Show so ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMME!lC"E of thofe, who are privately kidnapped by individuals. It remains only to obfervc on this head, that in the fale and purchafe of thefe the African commerce or Slave 'Trade conliJl:s; that they are delivered to the merchants of Europe in exchange for their various commodities; that thefe tranfport them to their colonies in the well:, where their )lavery takes place; and that a fifth order arifes there, compofed of all fuch as are born to the native Africans, after their tranfportation and !lavery have commenced. Having thus explained as much of the hill:ory of modern fervitude, as is fufficient ·for the profecution of our delign, we f11ould have clofed our account here, but that a work, jull: publiilied, has furnilhed us with a fingular anecdote of the colonill:s of a neighbouring nation, which we cannot but relate. The learned * author, having de- • Andrew Sparrman, M.D. profcifor of Phyfick at Stockholm, fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, and infpe8.or of its cabinet of natural hiflory, whofe voyage was tranflated into ~nglifh, and publlOled in 1785. fcribed OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. sr fc.ribed the method which the Dutch colomll: s at the Cape make ufe of to take the !fottentots and enllave them, takes occafion, Jn many fubfequent parts of the work to mention the dreadful effeCts of the prattice of llavery; which, as he jull:ly remarks " leads to all manner of mifdemeanours and :: wickednefs .. Pregnant women," fays he, and children In their tcnderell: years, were " not at this time, neither indeed are they " ever, exempt from the effeCts of the hatred " and fpirit of vengeance conll:antly harbour" ed by the colonill:s, with refpeet to the " t Bol11ies-man nation; excepting .fucb in" deed as are marked out to be carried away " i'nto bondage." " Does a colonill: at any time get fight of a Bol11ies-man, he takes fire immediately, and fpirits up his horfe and dogs, in order to hunt him with more ardour and fury than he would a wolf. or _any other wild beall:? On an ope~ plam, a few colonill:s on horfeback are always fure to get the better of the t BoOtics.man~ or •wild Hotttntot. D 2 " greatcft |