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A
SHORT SKETCH
OF
THE EVIDENCE
FOR THE
ABOLITION
OF THE
SLAVE TRADE,
Delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A
Recommendation of the Subject
TO THE
SERIOUS ATTENTION
OF
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.
“ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THATMEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TOTHEM,” Matt. chap. vii. ver. 12.
LONDON, PRINTED; PHILADELPHIA:
RE-PRINTED BY DANIEL LAWRENCE.
M.DCC.XCII.
The Design of the following SHORTSKETCH is not to supersede, inany Degree, more important Publications,but, on the Contrary, toextend their Circulation, and promotetheir Influence.
VIRTUE, say moralists, is so transcendently beautiful,that she need but be seen, to be universallyadmired: and is not VICE so hateful, that themore its features are viewed, the more it will be avoided?The traffic in the human species, particularlyas carried on by the Europeans on the coastof Africa, has so horrible an aspect, that nothing,one should think, but the Mask, under which ithas been concealed, could have prevented all the civi