WESTERN AFRICA. 
Divine rights can in the least palliate or 
apologize for such injustice. 
But then is it worse for black men to en- 
slave black men, than for white men to 
enslave them ? If it be right to hold slaves 
at all, black men have that right : but this 
right we deny. Christianity denies such right. 
And if nothing but the ignorance of that 
people can exempt them from fearful guilt, 
and condemnation in the sight of a just God, 
what must be the guilt of those who, with 
the light of Revelation shining conspicu- 
ously upon them, still refuse to " let the 
oppressed go free?" 
Slavery, and the domestic slave trade in 
Africa, as in America, are the prolific 
sources of infinite suffering : and in their 
general features are alike ; cursing both 
master and slave. 
When slaves are taken from one place to 
another, they are packed into canoes as 
sacks of grain are put into wagons in this 
country ; and thus, with little or no food, 
they are left for several days together. 
The customs and laws of that country, as 
in slave states 3 bear the cruel impress of 
