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IMPOLICY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. 



and desponding mind to heal. The vexations 

 and privations which he must undergo are to be 

 combated ; his mind as well as his body must be 

 kept in health, or little service will his master 

 receive from him. The loss which is occasioned 

 by untimely deaths would not, if free men were 

 employed, thus fall directly upon the planter. 

 The time which is passed by the runaway- 

 slave in the woods, or residing in temporary 

 freedom at some distant village, w T ould not be 

 so much property unemployed. The expenses 

 attendant upon sickness, and the loss of time 

 proceeding from the same cause, would be in- 

 curred by the patient, and the place of one in- 

 dividual would be occupied by another. The 

 constant anxiety of the planter, which is caused 

 by the bad habits of his slaves, and from other 

 reasons inseparably connected with the system, 

 by Which one man rules a body of his fellow- 

 creatures, who are at the same time his property, 

 would be removed. The owner of an estate 

 might have some rest ; his attention need not be 

 entirely given up to the management of his af- 

 fairs, which must now be the case, if he lias a 

 w r ish to advance his fortune, and a due regard 

 for the preservation in an able state, of the beings 

 through whose means this is to be accomplished. 

 Too true it is that men become callous to the 

 constant round of intelligence which is commu- 

 nicated by the manager ; of slaves sick, lamed 



