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CHAP. XX. 



IMPOLICY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. 



T^EW persons in Great Britain have now any 

 doubts of the inhumanity of the slave-trade, 

 and none would presume to come forwards as 

 its defenders. It is a great moral evil, perhaps 

 the greatest in the world, from which England 

 has at last been delivered. But her work is not 

 yet done ; other nations continue to transport 

 the natives of Africa from their own shores to 

 those of South America; and even when her 

 efforts have succeeded in persuading them to 

 forbid this trade, the plan of abolition must be 

 followed up in her own colonies ; she must atone 

 for the crimes which she has committed, and 

 prove to other countries her sincerity in the 

 cause, by her zeal in rooting out a most execrable 

 system with all prudent and possible expedition. 



In Brazil there are several excellent men who 

 still entertain the idea that the Africans are 

 saved from death by the slave-dealers, and that 

 if they were not purcuas^d by Europeans, their 

 countrymen would murder them ; this was the 

 opinion in England a few years ago, and there- 



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