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THE

WEST INDIES.

PART I.

ARGUMENT.

Introduction; on the Abolition of the Slave Trade,—The Mariner's Compass,—Columbus.—The Discovery of America.—The West Indian Islands,—The Charibs,—Their Extermination.
'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!'
 Thus saith the island-empress of the sea;
Thus saith Britannia.—O, ye winds and waves!
Waft the glad tidings to the land of slaves;
Proclaim on Guinea's coast, by Gambia' side,
And as far as Niger rolls his eastern tide,1

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