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1 A Review of the Reasons Given for Establishing a Registry of Slaves in the British Colonies in a Report of a Committee of the African Institution, Entitled Reasons, &c. &c. 1 (1815)

handle is hein.slavery/rvergslbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REVIEW OF THi REASONS GIVEN FOR ESTABLISHING A REGISTRY OF SLAVES IN THE BRITISH COLONIES IN A REPORT OF A COMMITEE OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION, E NTIfl c. °REASONS, &c. &c.* IT is much to be wished that some persons competent to- the task would write a full and impartial history of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. No single event is more curious or important. The same generation of men heard the first promulgation, and have witnessed the final triumph, of the great prin- ciples of mercy and justice which form the charter of freedom to the unnumbered nations of Africa. Sentiments which, in the recollec- tion of every man of mature age, were derided, even in the sanctuary of liberty and science, as the visions of finatics, have now been solemn- iy adopted into the great code of National Law by all the states of the civilized world. Never was a contest more arduous, nor a vic- tory more complete. Yet when the historian of this great revolution had, in the course of his narrative, arrived at the present period, he would close his volsme with a strange union of exultatien and alarm. After recording successes surpassing the. hes of the most sanguine, he would perceive that the final deliverance of Arica had not yet been accomplished.-Two nations in te centre of the Chris,- tian world still sanction a system which they have concured to re- probate as merciless and inhuma. -In the Western Hembphere every maritime state of Europe yet holds in bondage the natives of Afrca or their descendants. The colonies. which have so long been the dis- grace of one continent, and the bane of the other, remain without a reformation or even a visible chamge in their domestic system. Whatever motives once prompted the pro- prietors of land in those settle- ments to encourage the desolation of Africa, still operate with undi- minished force. Prohibitory laws 0 Published by Hatchard, 190, Piecadilly. Elleront and Henderson. Printers,

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