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dual. The knowledge I have gained in this place of the miſeries of others, may have excited my feelings; but where I behold ſo many of a deeper completion than my own, it would be weakneſs to deſpond, and injuſtice to complain.
As I have not read any pamphlet whatever that treats of the preſent ſubject, I am not conſcious of having adopted the ideas of others;[1] and
although
- ↑ I am happy to find that the ſame idea that ſtruck me in reſpect to the number of ſlaves confined in one ſhip, has likewiſe ariſen in other minds, and is likely to undergo a reformation; and it cannot be doubted but juſtice will attend benevolence, and that it will not ſuffer private rights to be infringed by public and popular opinion: it ought likewiſe to be obſerved, that this reform can only affect the African, and does not by any means apply to the comforts of the American ſlaves; ſo far, therefore, it will only be a partial introduction of that humanity, which, I humbly conceive, was meant to be extended to both.
Although many of the remarks in the following pages
may
