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Show xviii p R E F A C E. though, were they explained, they would be even reputable. The curfory remarker has adopted this method of difpute; but Mr. Ramfoy has explained lumfelf to t_he fatisfaCl:ion of all parties, and has refuted hun . · t The name of this cw:fory 111 every pam · . 1 remarker is 'I'obin : a name, which I fee myfelf obliged to hand down with dete!l:ation, as far as I am able; and ~ith an hmt to future writers, that they Will do themfelves more credit, and ferve more effeCtually the caufe which they undertake, if on fuch occafions they attack the work, rather than the charaCter of the writer, who affords them a fubjeCl: for their lucubrations. Nor is this the only circum!l:ance, which induces me to take fuch particular notice of the Curfory Remarks. I feel it incumbent upon me to refcue an injured perfon from the cruel afperfions that have been thro~n upon him , as I have been repeatedly 111f-formed by thofe, who have the plea_fu~e o his acquaintance, that his charaCter IS Hreproachable. 1 am alfo intere!l:ed myfelf. For if fuch detraCtion is paifed over in filence, my own reputation, and not my work, P R E F A C E. xix work, may be attacked by an anonymous l1ireling in the caufe of flavery. The Apology fir Negroe Slavery is a! moil: too defpieable a eompofition to merit a reply. 1 have only therefore to obferve, (as is frequently the cale in a bad caufc, or where writers do not confine themfelves to truth) that the work refutes itfelf. This writer, fpcaking of the flave-trade, aiferts, that people a ·e never kidnapped on the coa!l: of Africa. 1 n fpcaking of the treatment of flaves, he af!Crts ago in, that it is of the very mildefl: nature, and that they live in the moil: comfortable and happy manner imaginable. To prove each of his allertions, he propofes the following regulations. That the jlealing of fhves from Africa ihould be felony. That the premeditated murder of a flave by any per~ fon on board, flwuld come under the f.une denomination. That when flaves arrive in the colonies, lands ihould be allotted for theirprovifions, in proportion to tbeir number, or commiffioners ihould fee that a .fif!Jicient quantity ofjound 7obolifome provifions is purchafed. That they flJOuld not work on Sundays and other holy-days. That extra b 2 IJbour, |