A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominions

AT a time when the general rights and liberties of mankind, and the preservation of those valuable privileges transmitted to us from our ancestors, are become so much the subjects of universal consideration; can it be an inquiry indifferent to any, how many of those who distinguish themselves as the Advocates of Liberty, remain insensible and inattentive to the treatment of thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow men, who, from motives of avarice, and the inexorable decree of tyrant custom, are at this very time kept in the most deplorable state of Slavery, in many parts of the British Dominions? The intent of publishing the following sheets, is more fully to make known the aggravated iniquity attending the practice of the Slave-Trade; whereby many thousands of our fellow-creatures, as free as ourselves by nature, and equally with us the subjects of4 Christs redeeming Grace, are yearly brought into inextricable and barbarous bondage; and many, very many, to miserable and untimely ends. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68337
Author: Benezet, Anthony
Release Date: Jun 17, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: None listed
Publication Date: 1784
Publisher Country: United States