PREFACE. ? 



tBeiii virtue, was my fole and only motive ; wKilcj 

 on the other hand, it muft be obfervcd that Liberty, 

 nay even too much lenity, when fuddenly granted to 

 illiterate and unprincipled men, muft be to all parties 

 dangerous, if not pernicious. Witnefs the Owca and 

 Sarameca Negroes in Surinam — the Maroons of Ja- 

 maica, the Carribs of St. Vincent, &c. 



While the Colony of Surinam however is reeking 

 and dyed with the blood of the African negroes, 

 truth compels me to obferve, that the Dutch there are 

 not the only guilty ; but that to moft other nationSj, 

 and particularly the Jews, is owing this alnioft con- 

 flant and diabolical barbarity. 



Reader, perufe the pages annexed with impartiality 

 and with temper — fort the flowers from the weeds— 

 divide the gold fkilfully from the drofs — and perhaps 

 you may not regret the hours you have thus dedicated. 

 A few orthographical errors and inaccuracies have 

 been difcovered, particularly in the Firft Volume, 

 from my having unavoidably been prevented from 

 fuperintending its progrefs while in the prefs : But 

 in a fliort Errata, and particularly in the IndcXj 



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