Chapter IV: Part III

The Slavery of the Africans in the European Colonies.

CHAP. I. Imaginary scene in Africa.--Imaginary conversation with an
African.--His ideas of Christianity.--A Description of a body of
slaves going to the ships.--Their embarkation.--Chap. II. Their
treatment on board.--The number that annually perish in the
voyage.--Horrid instance at sea.--Their debarkation in the
colonies.--Horrid instance on the shore.--Chap. III. The condition
of their posterity in the colonies.--The lex nativitatis
explained.--Its injustice.--Chap. IV. The seasoning in the
colonies.--The number that annually die in the seasoning.--The
employment of the survivors.--The colonial discipline.--Its
tendency to produce cruelty.--Horrid instance of this
effect.--Immoderate labour, and its consequences.--Want of food
and its consequences.--Severity and its consequences.--The forlorn
situation of slaves.--An appeal to the memory of Alfred.--Chap. V.
The contents of the two preceding chapters denied by the
purchasers.--Their first argument refuted.--Their second
refuted.--Their third refuted.--Chap. VI. Three arguments, which
they bring in vindication of their treatment, refuted.--Chap. VII.
The argument, that the Africans are an inferiour link of the chain
of nature, as far as it relates to their genius, refuted.--The
causes of this apparent inferiority.--Short dissertation on African
genius.--Poetry of an African girl.--Chap. VIII. The argument, that
they are an inferiour link of the chain of nature, as far as it
relates to colour, &c. refuted.--Examination of the divine writings
in this particular.--Dissertation on the colour.--Chap. IX. Other
arguments of the purchasers examined.--Their comparisons
unjust.--Their assertions, with respect to the happy situation of
the Africans in the colonies, without foundation.--Their happiness
examined with respect to manumission.--With respect to
holy-days.--Dances, &c.--An estimate made at St. Domingo.--Chap. X.
The right of the purchasers over their slaves refuted upon their own
principles.--Chap. XI. Dreadful arguments against this commerce and
slavery of the human species.--How the Deity seems already to punish
us for this inhuman violation of his laws.--Conclusion.

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ERRATA.

For _Dominique_, (Footnote 107) read _Domingue_.

N. B. In page 18 a Latin note has been inserted by mistake, under
the quotation of Diodorus Siculus. The reader will find the original
Greek of the same signification, in the same author, at page 49.
Editio Stephani.

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AN ESSAY

ON THE SLAVERY and COMMERCE

OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

IN THREE PARTS.

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