A Preliminary Essay on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa

Africans Almighty ANNO DOMINI appear attended authority Babylon barbarities Behold blood blush brutes called cause cerning Christendom Christian civil colonies colour conduct crimes cruel cruelty degree despots disgrace divine dreadful duty earth effects enslaved Europe evil expence eyes fatal favoured favoured nations fear fellow creatures forbear former France French French consul friends friends of humanity gentlemen glory groans hand happy heaven honour human nature impunity inhabitants inhuman instances Jamaica Jerusalem Jews Judea labour latter liberty ligion mankind manner masters ment mercy mind miseries monster moral murdered Napoleon Bonaparte nation negroes never oppressed oppressors person political poor prosperity punishment Quashi race recollect religion religious render ruin situation slave-trade slavery slaves soul species suffer thee thing thou thousand tical tion tism treated tremble tural ture tyrants West-Indies woes wretched slaves