IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
Ill 
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 us under lasting obligations 
to them. If restitution is a part of repentance, 
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 restitution which 
lies within our power. What has been our con- 
duct 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 found a watery grave in 
the briny deep, and many on American soil, who 
came to a premature death by the slave-trade. 
