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than Barbarians, I shall here narrate some accounts which have been given by men concerned ni the Slave Trade.
First, the following case is mentioned in Astley's Collection of Voyages, by John Atkins, Surgeon on board Admiral Ogle's squadron, "Of one Harding, Master of a vessel, in which several of the Men-slaves and a Woman-slave had attempted to rise in order to recover their Liberty; some of whom the Master of his own authority sentenced to cruel deaths, making them first eat the hearts and liver of one of those he killed. The woman he hoisted by the thumbs, whiped, and slashed with knives before other Slaves, until she died." Oh unparralelled cruelty!
Next is an account given by a Ship-master who brought a Cargo of Slaves to Barbadoes, upon an enquiry what had been the success of the voyage, he answered, "That he had found it a difficult matter to set the Negroes a fighting with each other in order to procure the number he wanted." This shews, Reader, what methods they practise to obtain these Slaves, by setting them a fighting with each other. "But when he had
