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THE

WEST INDIES.

PART IV.

ARGUMENT.

The Moravian Brethren.—Their Missions in Greenland, North America, and the West Indies.—Christian Negroes—The Advocates of the Negroes in England.—Granville Sharpe,—Clarkson,—Wilberforce,—Pitt,— Fox,—The Nation itself.—The Abolition of the Slate Trade.—The future State of the West Indies,—of Africa,—of the whole World.—The Millennium.
Was there no Mercy, mother of the slave!
No friendly hand to succour and to save,
While Commerce thus thy captive tribes oppress'd,
And lowering Vengeance linger'd o'er the west?

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