CONTENTS. 
V 
Character of the Creole women and children.—Of the people of co¬ 
lour, and their different tribes or casts.—Limitations and restrictions 
on the mulattoes and native blacks of free condition.—Their character 
at length, l$c .. . . .. 199 
CHAP. II. 
Of Negroes in a state of slavery .•—Preliminary observations.—Origin 
of the slave trade.—Portuguese settlements on the African coast .— 
Negroes introduced into Hispaniola in 1502, and the slave trade re¬ 
vived at the instance of Barth, de las Casas, in 1517.— Hawkins’s 
Voyages to the Coast, in 1562, and 1563 .—African company esta¬ 
blished by fames I.—Second charter in 1631 by Charles I.—Third 
charter in 1662.— Fourth charter in 1672 .—Effects of the Petition 
and Declaration of Rights in i6'88.-— Acts of the Qth and loth of 
William and Mary, c. 2b.—New regulations in 1750 .—Description 
of the African coast.—-Forts and factories.—Exports from Great 
Britain.—Number of negroes transported annually to the British Co¬ 
lonies.—State of the trade from 1771 to 1787 .—Number of negroes 
at this time exported annually by the different nations of Europe. 235 
CHAP. III. 
Mandingoes, or Natives of the Windward Coast-—Mahometans.— 
Their wars, manners and per sons .—Koromantyn negroes, or natives 
of the Gold Coast.—Their ferociousness of disposition displayed by an 
account of the negro rebellion in famaica in 1760 —Their national 
manners, wars, and superstitions.—Natives of Whidah or Fida .—■ 
Their good qualities. — Nagoes.—Negroes from Benin.—Persons and 
tempers. — Canibals.—Natives of Kongo and Angola.—Survey of the 
character and dispositions of negroes in a state of slavery. . . . 263 
CHAP. IV. 
Means of obtaining slaves in Africa.—Observations thereon. — Objec¬ 
tions to a direct and immediate abolition of the trade by the British 
nation only.—The probable consequences of such a measure, both in 
Africa and the West Indies, considered.—Disproportion of sexes in 
