CHAPTER XXXII . 
THE VICIOUS INFLUENCE OF THE WHITES. 
I shall now show that the treatment which 
that people have received from the people 
of Europe and America, places ns under 
lasting obligations to them. If restoration 
is a part of repentence, which we most 
firmly believe, when it lies in the power of 
the trespasser to make it to the injured, 
then we can never receive pardon at the 
hands of God for wrongs inflicted upon the 
African race, except we make to them all the 
restoration w T hich lies within our power. 
What has been our conduct toward that 
race? 
First — We had, up to the commencement 
of the last century, robbed Africa of no less 
than twenty-five millions of people, by the 
inhuman slave trade alone. The history of 
the slave trade is written in characters of 
blood ! Could the dead on the shores of 
Africa, and .those who have found a watery 
grave in the briny deep, and many on Ameri- 
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