CHAPTER XXVIII. 
SLAVERY — SLAVE TRADE. 
Slavery deserves notice as an African in- 
stitution. This institution in Africa, as in 
America, is " the sum of all villainies," and 
to such an extent is this system of villainy 
carried on, that it is supposed by some that 
two-thirds of the entire population of that 
country, are slaves to the other third. 
In the eyes of slave propagandists of this 
country, it is an awful crime for colored 
persons to hold their own people as slaves ; 
and receive their labor without remunerating 
them for it. We admit that it is wrong, 
yea cruel, for one black man to hold another 
as property, and deprive him of liberty, and 
the pursuit of happiness,— have power to 
whip, starve, work, and tyrannically rule 
over him. It is a wicked usurpation of 
power, — a flagrant outrage upon human 
rights, — high-handed, wholesale robbery,— 
and a great crime in the sight of Heaven, 
Nothing but their ignorance of human ai*d 
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