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Show I t xiv P R E F A C E. he came under the protection of the Britijb laws, and was confequently free. Nor did he interfere lefs honourably in that cruel and difgraceful cafe, in the fummer of the year 178 r, when an hundred and thirty t~oo negroes, in their palfage to the colonies, were thrown into the fea alive, to defraud the underwriters; but his pious endeavours were by no means attended with the £~me fuccefs. To enumerate his many laudable endeavours in the extirpation of tyranny and oppreffion, would be to fwell the preface into a volume: fuffice it to f.~y, that he has written feveral books on the fubject, and one particularly, which he diftinguilhes by the title of " A Limitation of " jlavery." The fecond is the Rev. James Rall!fay. This gentleman refided for many years in the Wejl-Indies, in the clerical office. He perufed all the colonial codes of law, with a view to find if there were any favourable claufes, by which the grievances of fiaves could be redrelfed; but he was feverely difappointed in his purfuits. He publilhed a treatife, Iince his return to England, called An E.Jlay on the 'Treatment and Convet:fton if African P R E F A C E. XV African Slaves in the Britijb Sugar Colonies, which I recommend to the perufal of the humane reader. This work reflects great praife upon the author, Iince, in order to be of fervice to this fingularly opprelfed part of the human fpecies, he compiled it at the e:~o:pence of forfeiting that friendlhip, which he had contracted with many in thofe parts, during a feries of years, and at the hazard, as I am credibly informed, of futfering much in his private property, as well as of fubjecting himfelf to the ill will and perfecution of numerous individuals. This Elfay on the 'Treatment and Converjion of African Slaves, contains fo many important truths on the colonial flavery, and has come fo home to the planters, (being written by a perfon who has a thorough knowledge of the fubject) as to have occafioned a confiderable alarm. Within the !all: eight months, two publications have exprefsly appeared againll: it. One of them is intitled "Curfory Remarks on Mr. Ram-fay's Elfay ;" the other an "Apology .for " Ntgroe Slavery." On each of thelc I am bound, |