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casion to appeal to the heart than to the head. It must be obvious to every person of common sense, one would suppose, that such a custom must be wicked in the extreme - It will become us therefore to tell those who, against the light of conscience, perversely and stubbornly continue to encourage this deleterious and detestable practice, that they will for ever preclude themselves from the entrance into that joy which God has promised to the just and benevolent. They must expect to see (for such a consequence will follow their sullen unrepentance as naturally as the night follows the day) the Redeemer and the Judge of mankind at that tremendous bar, to which we shall all be brought, put off for awhile his benignant aspect, and with a look alienated from them, and cloathed with terrour as with a robe. They must expect to hear him pronounce these dreadful and heart-rending words, "Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.*"
In short, I will observe, that I have not, that I cannot have, any partial views of interest or malice in urging with such vehemence the criminality of negro-slavery. I have relations and friends whom I love, who are deeply engaged in this matter, and for whose guilt I feel most exquisitely. I could wish to preserve them and every oppressor of the negroes from the excess of wickedness, and the negroes them selves from the excess of misery. 
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a great number of negroes on the coast of Curraca, where it is said this regulation took place, had bought themselves free, that of all those who had been converted to Christianity, he had not known one, who ever turned back to his former heathenish practices, and that the king of Spain had not more faithful and more industrious subject than these negroes, who were thus liberated. 
*Matthew xxv. 41. 
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I shall conclude these observations with quoting the words of a religious author upon this subject, whose indignation seems to have made him eloquent. He addresses himself to the several persons engaged in the trade and the oppression of the blacks. "And first, to the captains employed in this trade. Most of you know the country of Guinea, perhaps now by your means, part of it is become a dreary uncultivated wilderness; the inhabitants being murdered or carried away, so that there are few left to till the ground; but you know, or have heard, how populous, how fruitful, how pleasant it was a few years ago. You know the people were not stupid, not wanting in sense, considering the few means of improvement they enjoyed. Neither did you find them savage, treacherous, or unkind to strangers. On the contrary they were in most parts a sensible and ingenious people; kind and friendly, and generally just in their dealings. Such are the men whom you hire their own countrymen, to tear away from this lovely country; part by stealth, part by force, part made captives in those wars which you raise or foment on purpose. You have seen them torn away, children from their parents, parents from their children, husbands from their wives, wives from their beloved husbands, brethren and sisters from each other. You have dragged them who had never done you any wrong, perhaps in chains, from their native shore. You have forced them into your ships, like an herd of swine, them who had souls immortal as your own. You have stowed them together as close as ever they could lie, without any regard wither to decency or conveniency - And when many of them had been poisoned by foul air, or had sunk under various hardships, you have seen their remains delivered to the deep, till the sea should give up his dead. You have carried the survivors into the vilest slavery, never to end but with 
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I read in the instructions that we no longer need to note the beginning and end of the pages in double brackets, so I deleted such references here.