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Show rsz ON THE SLAVERY AND C oMMERCE difintereil:ed people, who out of curiofity have attended the '*'markets to which thefe unhappy people weekly refort, that they have not been able to turn their eyes on any group of them whatever, but they have beheld thcfe inhuman marks of paflion, defpotifin, and caprice. But thefe inil:anccs of barbarity have not been able to deter them from limibr proceedings. And indeed, how can it be expeered that they ll1ould ? They have {!ill the f.1me appetite to be fati slied as before, and to drive them to defperation. They creep out clande!linely by night, and go in fearch of food into their mailer's, or fome neighbouring plantatioq, But here they are almoil: equally fure of fufrering. The watchman, who will be punill1ed h imfelf if he .neglects his duty, f requently fcize; them 111 the faa. No excufe or intrcaty wdl avad; he mull punill1 them for 3 ,1 example, ancl he mull: punill1 them, not with • Particul.arJy in Jamaica, Thefe obfervations were made by dilinterefted people, who were there for three or four ;rears during the late war. a il.ick, oF THE H uMAN SPECIEs. 153 a il:ick, nor with a whip, but with a cutlaf.,. Thus it happens, that thefe unhappy llaves, if they arc taken, are either fent away n:an. cried in a barbarous manner, or are l<llled "' upon the fpot. We may now mention the confeq_uences of the feverity. The wretched Afncans, daily fubjecred to the lafh, and unmercifully whipt and beaten on every trifl ing occafion, have been found to refi !l: their oppofcrs. Unpardonable crime! that they ll1ould have the feelings of nature! that their . b:ea!l:~ IJJOuld glow with refentment on an Jnjury · that they ll1ould be fo far overcome, a~ to refill: thofe, whom they are under no obltgations to obey, and whofe only title t~ their fervices confiil:s in a violation if the rtghts if men J· What has been the confequence ?But here Jet us fpare the feelings of the reader, (we wi01 we could fpare our own) and Jet us only fay, without a recital of the c ruelty, that they have been murdered at the diji:retion if their .maflers. For let the re~der obfervc, that the life of an Afncan IS only valued at a price, that would fcarcely t'urchafc an horfe ; that the mail:er has a power |