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Show Books Printed and Sold by ]. PutLLIPs, ESSAY on the TREATMENT and CoNvERSION of AFRICAN SLAVES in the BRITISH Sugar Colonies. By the Rev. J. RAMSAY, Vicar of Tefl:on in Kent, who relided many Years in the Wefl:-lndies. In One Volume, Octavo. Price ss bound, or 4s in Boards. An INQYIR Y into the Effects of putting a Stop to the African Slave Trade, and of granting Liberty to the Slaves in the Britdh Sugar Colonies. By J. RAMSAy. Price 6d. A REPLY to the Perfonal Invectives and Objections contained in two Anfwers, publifl1ed by certain anonymous Perfons, to an Elf.•y on the Treatment and Converlion of African Slaves, in theBritilh Colonies. By }AMES RAMSAY. Price zs. A LETTER from Capt. J. S. SMITH, to the Rev. Mr. HILL, on the State of the Negroe Slaves; to which are added an Introduction, and Remarks on Free Negroes, &c. by J. RAMSAY. Price 6d. THOUGHTS on the Slavery of the Negroes. Price 4d. The CASE of our Fellow-Creatures, the Oppreffed Africans,relpectfully recommended to the ferious Conlideration of the Legifiature of Great-Britain, by the People called ~akers. Price zd. A SERIOUS ADDRESS to the Rulers of America, on the Inconlifl:ency of their Conduct refpecting Slavery. Price Jd. A CAUTION to GREAT BRITAIN and her Colonies, in a lhort Reprefentation of the calamitous State of the enfiaved Negroes in the Britilh Dominions. By ANTHONY BENEZET. Price 6d. A Defcription of Guinea, its Situation, Produce, and the general Difpolition of its Inhabitants; with an Inquiry into the Rife and Progrefs of the Slave Trade, &c. By ANTHONY BENEZET. Bound zs. 6d. T I-I E p R E F A c E. As the fubjcet of the following work has fortunately become of late a topick of converfi1tion, I cannot begin the preface in a manner more G1tisfacrory to the feelings of the benevolent reader, than by giving an account of thofe humane and worthy perfons, who have endeavoured to draw upon it that !hare of the publick attention which it has obtained. Among the well difpofed individuals, of different nations and ages, who have humanely exerted themfelves to fupprefs the abjeCt ·perfonal flavery, introduced in the original cultivation of the European colonies in the wefiern world, Bartho!ome11J de las Cajas, the pious bifl10p of Chiapa, in the fifteenth century, feems to have been the firfi. This amiable man, during his refidence in Spanijh America, was fo fenlibly affeCted at the treatment which the miferable Indians under\' Yent, that he returned to Spain, to make 'I a 3 publick |