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Show 180 ON TIIF. SLAVERY AND CoM M ERCe were to be known by their colour, their features, their form, or the very hair pf their heads, which is brought into the account?But alas! fo far are the divine writings from giving any fuch account, that they {hew the alfcrtion to be falfe. They {hew that the t defcendants of Culh were of the colour, to which the advocates for flavery allude; and of courfe, that there was no fuch limitation of colour to the pofl:erity of C~naa n, or the inheritors of the curfe. Suppofe we fhould now {hew, upon the moil: undeniable evidence, * that thofe of the t Jeremiah fays, ch. xiii. z3, "Can the /Ethiopian ch:mge " ~is _colour, or the leopard his fpots ?" Now the word, wh1ch lS here tranflated /Ethiopian, is in the original Hebrc\'/ 11 the tlef andam ofCujb," which lhews that this colour was not confined to the dcfccndants of CanaaJl, as the advocates for fiavery aiTcrt. • It is ''cry extraordinary that the ad\·ocates for flaver fuould conftder thofe Africans, whom they call negroes, as th~ defcenclants of Canaan, when few hillorical fad:s can be fo well afccrtaip.ed, as that out of the defcendants of the four fans of Ham, the de(~endants of Canaan were the only people, (if we except the Carthaginians, who were a colony of Canaan, and were afterwards ruined) who did not fettle in that quarter of.the globe, Africa »'as incontrovertibly peopled by the poftcnty of the three other fans. We cannot !hew this in a c:learermanner, than in thewordsofthe learned Mr. Bryant, in his letter to Mr. Granville Sharp on this fubjeU. "We oF THE H uMAN S PECIES, 18 1 the wretched Africans, who are fingl ed out as inheriting the curfe, _are the defcendants of " We learn from fcripture, that Ham had four fans, Chtu, ~·· /11izraim, Phut . and Canaau, Gen. x . S, 6. Ca11aa11 occu" pied Pahjlitu, :m,lthc countr)' called by his name: Mi:::.u raim, Eg;·pt: but P/)llt pafi"ed deep into Af rica, and, I he•• licve, moll of the nations in that part of the world nrc de" fccnded from him ; at leaft more than from any other perH fon." Jofeeh11r fays, "that Phut •uJtu the j oumftr of the H 11ations in Lihpt, {llljl the people <tvrrt J nmr him called ~11101 " Pb:~ti." Antiq. L. 1. c. 7· " By L_rhia he under!\:ands, as u the Greeks did, Ajrila in general: for the particular coun· f' try called Ly hia Proper, was peopled by the Luhim, or Lt~ u babim, one of the branches from Mi:r.raim, /l.rLCmp. t~ r.u f< /\tCJ•H· Chron. Pafchale, p. 29 . " The fans of Phut fettled in Mauritmtia, where was a " country called Plllltia , and a river of the like dcnominau tion. Mauritani:c Fluvius ufque ad pra:fens Tempus PJmt u dicitur, omnifq; eire~ cum Regia Pbuttnjis. Hicron. Tradit. f' Hcbrrere.-Amnem, quem vacant Fut." Pliny, L. 5· c. t. " Serre of this f:tmily fet~led above JEgypt, ncar .£thiopin, H :md were ftyled Troglodyt~. ll!11J' e.; 11 T~r.t)IMI'r>1d.t· Syn. ,. cellus, p. 47. "Many of them paRCd inland, and peopled f ' the Mediterranean country." u In proccfs of time the fans of Ch~ts alfo, (after their ex .. u pulfion from Egypt) made:: fettlcmenu upon the fea coaft u of .Africa, and came into Mauritania. Hence we find .. traces of them :tlfo in the names of places, fuch as Churis, •• Chujarts, upon the coaft: and a river CIJUfa, and a city u Cotta, together with a promol\lOry, Cot is, in llfauritania, " all denominated from Cbur ; who at different t imes, and u by different people, w:l.S c:tlled Cbus, Ctttb, Cofo, and Cotis. M 3 "The |