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alluded to, and believes that the slave-trade itself is a great cause of it, for he thinks that the real or supposed necessity of treating the negroes with rigour gradually brings a numbness upon the heart, and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow-creatures; and he supposes there is no trade in which seamen are treated with so little humanity as in the African slave-trade. He has himself seen the sailors, when sick, beaten for being lazy, till they have died under the blows.
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