chap, viii.] ORIGINATED AFRICAN SLAVE SYSTEM. 293 
tensions, that must inevitably insure the disgust of 
the white community. Ill-will thus engendered, a 
hatred and jealousy is established between the two 
races, combined with the errors that in such conditions 
must arise upon both sides. The final question remains, 
Why was the negro first introduced into our colonies— 
and to America ? 
The sun is the great arbitrator between the white 
and the black man. There are productions necessary 
to civilized countries, that can alone be cultivated in 
tropical climates, where the white man cannot live if 
exposed to labour in the sun. Thus, such fertile 
countries as the West Indies and portions of America 
being without a native population, the negro was 
originally imported as a slave to fulfil the conditions 
of a labourer. In his own country he was a wild 
savage, and enslaved his brother man ; he thus became 
a victim to his own system; to the institution of 
slavery that is indigenous to the soil of Africa, and 
that has not been taught to the African by the white 
man , as is currently reported, but that has ever been 
the peculiar characteristic of African tribes. 
In his state of slavery the negro was compelled to 
work, and, through his labour, every country prospered 
where he had been introduced. He was suddenly 
freed; and from that moment he refused to work, and 
