Christianity and Slavery; in a Course of Lectures Preached at the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. Michael, Barbados

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... appendix. A.--Page 6. "There was a time which it may be fit sometimes to revive in the remembrance of our countrymen, when even human sacrifices are said to have been offered in this island. But I would particularly observe on this day, for it is a case precisely in point, that the very practice of the slave-trade once prevailed among us. Slaves were formerly an established article of our exports. Great numbers were exported like cattle from the British coasts, and were to be seen exposed for sale in the Roman market. Why might not some Roman senator, reasoning on the principle of some honourable gentlemen, and pointing to British barbarians, have predicted with equal boldness, There is a people that will never rise to civilization: there is a people destined never to be free--a people without the understanding necessary for the attainment of useful arts--depressed by the hand of nature below the level of the human species, and created to form a supply of slaves to the rest of the world?"--Pitt's Speeches. "The exportation of slaves from some parts of England continued to the very end of this period. 'Some young men, ' says William of Malmsbury, ' were exported from Northumberland, to be sold, according to a custom which seems to be natural to the people of that country, of selling their nearest relations for their advantage: a custom which we see them practise even in our own days.' The people of Bristol seem to have been no less addicted to this ignominious branch of trade; of which we have the follqwing curious account in the life of Wulfstan, who was bishop of Worcester at the Norman conquest. 'There is a sea-port town called Bristol, opposite to Ireland, into which its inhabitants make frequent voyages on account of trade. Wulfstan...

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