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While the friends of humanity in Europe and
America are weeping over their injured fellow
creatures, and directing their ingenuity and their
labors to the removal of so disgraceful monu-
rnent of cruelty and avariee, there are not want
ing men who claim the title and enjoy the privii-
ges of American citizens, who still employ them
selves in the odious traffic of human flesh: Yes,
in direct opposition to public sentiment and the law
of The land, there are ships fitted out every year
in the ports of the United States to transport the
inhabitants of Africa from their native shores and
cons IGN them to all the torments of southern
oppression We would ask our readers if JUS
tice sleeps, orfhumanity is discouraged and silent
on account of the many injuries she has sustained?
Were not this the case, methinks the pursuit OF
the beasts of the forest would be forgotten, and
such monsters Of iniquty would in their stead be
hunted from the abodes of men,. Oh, Africa, un-
happy, ill-fated region, how long shall thy savage
inhabitants have reason to utter complaints and to-
imbrecate the vengeance Of Heaven against civil
lization and christianity? Is it not enough that
natures God has consigned thee to arid plains, to
noxious vapors, to devouring beasts of prey, and
to all the scorchng influences of the torrid zone9
Must rapine and violence, captivity and slavery,
be superadded to thy torments, and be inflicted
too by men who wear the garb of justice and hu-
manty, who hypocritically adopt the accents OF
the benevolent religion Of Jesus' Oh, Africa
thou loud proclaimer of the rapacity, the treache-
ry and cruelty of civilized men, thou everlasting
monument Of European and American disgrace,
remember not the offences committed against
thee, but be tender in the great day of inquiry and
show christian world that thou eanst suffer
and forgive ).