AN ESSAY
        ON THE SLAVERY AND COMMERCE
        OF THE HUMAN SPECIES,
        PARTICULARLY THE AFRICAN,      
    
    
           
    
      
        TRANSLATED FROM A LATIN DISSERTATION,
        WHICH WAS HONOURED
        WITH THE FIRST PRIZE
        IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
        FOR THE YEAR 1785,
        WITH ADDITIONS.      
    
    
    
    
    
      Neque premendo alium me extulisse velim.-LIVY.    
    
    
    
    
    
      M.DCC.LXXXVI.    
    
    
     
    
    
    
    
        
      TO THE
      RIGHT HONOURABLE
      WILLIAM CHARLES COLYEAR,
      EARL OF PORTMORE,
      VISCOUNT MILSINTOWN.    
    
    
      
      MY LORD,    
    
      The dignity of the subject of this little Treatise, not any      persuasion of its merits as a literary composition,      encourages me to offer it to your Lordship's patronage. The      cause of freedom has always been found sufficient, in every      age and country, to attract the notice of the generous and      humane; and it is therefore, in a more peculiar manner,      worthy of the attention and favour of a personage, who      holds a distinguished rank in that illustrious island, the      very air of which has been determined, upon a late      investigation of its laws, to be an antidote against      slavery. I feel a satisfaction in the opportunity, which      the publication of this treatise affords me, of      acknowledging your Lordship's civilities, which can only be      equalled by the respect, with which I am,    
    
      
      Your Lordship's,
      much obliged,
      and obedient servant,    
    
      THOMAS CLARKSON.    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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      THE PREFACE.    
    
    
      As the subject of the following work has fortunately become      of late a topick of conversation, I cannot begin the      preface in a manner more satisfactory to the feelings of      the benevolent reader, than by giving an account of those      humane and worthy persons, who have endeavoured to draw      upon it that share of the publick attention which it has      obtained.    
    
      Among the well disposed individuals, of different nations      and ages, who have humanely exerted themselves to suppress      the abject personal slavery, introduced in the original      cultivation of the European colonies in the western      world, Bartholomew de las Casas, the pious bishop of      Chiapa, in the fifteenth century, seems to have been      the first. This amiable man, during his residence in      Spanish America, was so sensibly affected at the      treatment which the miserable Indians underwent that he      returned to Spain, to make a publick remonstrance      before the celebrated emperor Charles the fifth,      declaring, that heaven would one day call him to an account      for those cruelties, which he then had it in his power to      prevent. The speech which he made on the occasion, is now      extant, and is a most perfect picture of benevolence and      piety.    ...                        
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