the attempt, rather than continue her prefent 

 wretched life, hopelefs of relief. 



She wept as flie fpake, and the heavy 

 tear fwelled on her ebon cheek as fhe related 

 the feverities to which fhe had been fubje£ted. 

 Her tale was at once interefting and diftreff- 

 ful. It needed not the aid of eloquence to 

 move compaffion. The fimple narration of 

 the hardfhips impofed, and thepunifhment in- 

 flicted for only trivial faults, inftantly reached 

 the feelings, and in ftrong appeal begat a new 

 regret that whole hofts of human creatures, 

 for the of lucre a few of their fellow beings, 

 differing only in the colour of their fkin^ 

 fhould be degraded to a fituation, which not 

 only deprives them of the command of their 

 perfons, but, alfo, robs them of ail the powers of 

 will. 



Diverted of every right, a flave has no 

 redrefs, — not even againfl the bittereft wrongs : 

 however oppreffed — however injured he has 

 no refource — no means of relief ! Not having 

 the power of changing his home, he has no 

 efcape from ill ufage or cruelty 5 but is con- 



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