CHAP.  I. Imaginary scene in Africa.—­Imaginary conversation with an African.—­His ideas of Christianity.—­A Description of a body of slaves going to the ships.—­Their embarkation.—­Chap.  II.  Their treatment on board.—­The number that annually perish in the voyage.—­Horrid instance at sea.—­Their debarkation in the colonies.—­Horrid instance on the shore.—­Chap.  III.  The condition of their posterity in the colonies.—­The lex nativitatis explained.—­Its injustice.—­Chap.  IV.  The seasoning in the colonies.—­The number that annually die in the seasoning.—­The employment of the survivors.—­The colonial discipline.—­Its tendency to produce cruelty.—­Horrid instance of this effect.—­Immoderate labour, and its consequences.—­Want of food and its consequences.—­Severity and its consequences.—­The forlorn situation of slaves.—­An appeal to the memory of Alfred.—­Chap.  V. The contents of the two preceding chapters denied by the purchasers.—­Their first argument refuted.—­Their second 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 causes of this apparent inferiority.—­Short dissertation on African genius.—­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 colour, &c. refuted.—­Examination of the divine writings in this particular.—­Dissertation on the colour.—­Chap.  IX.  Other arguments of the purchasers examined.—­Their comparisons unjust.—­Their assertions, with respect to the happy situation of the Africans in the colonies, without foundation.—­Their happiness examined with respect to manumission.—­With respect to holy-days.—­Dances, &c.—­An estimate made at St. Domingo.—­Chap.  X. The right of the purchasers over their slaves refuted upon their own principles.—­Chap.  XI.  Dreadful arguments against this commerce and slavery of the human species.—­How the Deity seems already to punish us for this inhuman violation of his laws.—­Conclusion.

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ERRATA.

    For Dominique, (Footnote 107) read Domingue.

N. B. In page 18 a Latin note has been inserted by mistake, under the quotation of Diodorus Siculus.  The reader will find the original Greek of the same signification, in the same author, at page 49.  Editio Stephani.

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AN ESSAY

ON THE SLAVERY and COMMERCE

OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

IN THREE PARTS.

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PART I.

THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY.