A Reply "Point by Point" to the Special Report of the Directors of the African Institution - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1815 Excerpt: ... ' less adversaries" of this traffic; and these very servants who did thus purchase, and employ Slaves, and did So aid and assist with assorted articles of Merchandise from the Company's Store, others in the dpen purchase of Slaves fdr sixteen years, are countenanced by those very Directors to this moment! Such men Way have been of. hitherto un"blemished character," but I do not believe thd World will continue to consider them so immaculate, while they persist in patronising, promoting1, and praising those who confess and defend sUch Conduct, (page 48, Special Report) and I am led to think, they will rather be considered as aiders and abetters to that crime which they have always so loudly professed to abhor, though the Reporter assures us "they have satisfied the Directors of "their purity." These are not " trifles light at air," but "confirmations strong." I lament so much exposure has been wrung from me. I labored to save the fame and popularity of those wholh I considered truly worthy of respect and attention, and I endeavored to induce them to carry into effect their professions, and promises for Africa: but if they will pertinaciously persist to delude, in expectation of upholding their own pride, and an insignificant individual's profit, they must sink themselves, when they intended to Overwhelm me; all the persecution I have experienced does not surprise me, though it fcos) gone to the extent of human malignity. 1 wrof# in page 37 of my Letter to Mr. Wilberforce, "I often pause as I write, to consider if fame, "wealth, and power, can over-awe the investigation of truth; but, as I reflect on the English charat"ter, I am encouraged to proceed;" and that reflection has been my only incitement to this very hour. If the most distinguished personages in t...

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