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Show :XXX C 0 N T E N T S. P A R T III. The Slavery of the Africans in the European Colonies. CHAP. I. Imaginary fcene in Africa.- Imaginary converfation with an African.- His ideas ofChrifiianity .-A Defcription of a body of llaves going to the fl1ips.Their embarkation.-Chap. II. Their treatment on boanl.-The number that annually perifu in the voyage.-Horrid inll:ance at [ea.-Their debarkation in the colonies.Horrid inll:ance on the fl1ore.-Chap. III. The condition of their pofierity in the colonies.- The lex nativitatis explained.-Its injull:ice.-Chap. IV. The feafoning in the colonies.-The number that annually die in the feafoning.-The employment of the furvivors.- The colonial difcipline.-Its tendency to produce cruelty.-Horrid infiance of this effect.-Immoderate labour, and its confequences.-Want of food and its confequences.- Severity and its confequences.- The forlorn fituation of flaves.An appeal to the memory of Alfred.Chap. V. The contents of the two preceding chapters denied by the purchafers.- Their firll: argument refuted.-Their fecond C 0 N T E N T S. xxxi fecond refuted.-Their third refuted.Chap. VI. Three arguments, which they bring in vindication of their treatment, refuted.- Chap. VII. The argument, that the Africans are an inferiour link of the chain of nature, as far as it relates to their genius, refuted.-The caufes of this apparent inferiority .-Short differtation on African g~nius.- Poetry of an African girL-Chap. VIII. The argument, that they are an inferiour link of the chain of nature, as far as it relates to cei>lour, &c. refuted.-Examination of the divine writings in this particular.- Differtation on the colour.-Chap. IX. Other arguments of the purchafers examined.- Their comparifons unjufi.-Their affertions, with refpect to the happy fi tuation of the Africans in the colonies, without foundation.-Their happinefs examined with refpect to manumiffion.-With refpect to holy-days.-Dances, &c.-An ell:imate made at St. Domingo.-Chap. X. The right of the purchafers over their llaves refu ted upon their own principles.-Chap. XI. Dreadful arguments againll: this commerce and llavery of the human fpecies.-How the Deity feems already to punifl1 us for this inhuman violation • f his laws.-Conclufion. |