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fuch means the foreign (lave trade decreafed, and could only be carried on by fraudulent means*, and by a defcription of perfons, who were carefully watched by the bilhops, whom a fynode had authorized to enquire throughout their re- fpeflive diocefes, “ whether flaves were exported; tc whether a Chriftian were ever fold, either to tc a Jew or a Heathen; or, whether a Jew dealt cc in flaves who profefs the Chriftian religion." The famous market atBriftol f, where the flaves were imported from all parts of England, and there fold to Irifli merchants, was much deprefled and tra Patriam vendantur. Confer. Wilkins, Concilia. Britann. t. i. p. 235. 287. 293. 295 et Leges Anglo Sax. pag. J07. 120. 134. * Regino de Difciplina Ecclefiaftic. Hbr. ii. cap. 41. f Wilhelm. Malmelbur. in Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, t. ii: p. 258. in the life of St. Wulfftan, libro ii. c. 20. “ Vicus “ eft maritimus Brichftow diftus, a quo redto curfu in Hi- “ berniam tranfmittitur, ideoque illius barbariei accom- “ modus. Hujus indigenae cum cteteris ex Anglia caufa “ mercimonii ia:pc in Hiberniam navigant.—Videres et “ gemeres concatenates funibus miferorum ordines et utri- “ ufque fexus adolefcentes; qui liberal! forma, xtate intc- “ gra barbaris miferatione ell'ent, cotidie proftitui, cotidie “ venundari, ancillafque prius ludibrio ledli habitas iamque “ pr^gnantes venundabant. Facinus execrandum, dede- “ cus miferabile nec belluini affedfus memores homines ne- “ ceffitudines fuas, ipfum poftremo fanguinem fuum fervituti “ addicere. Hunc tarn inveteratum niorem et a proavis ad “ nepotes transfufum Wuliltarius paulatim delevit, feiens B 3 “ pervi-


An essay on the slave trade

An Essay on the Slave Trade.
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1788
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