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Fix this textCOMMERCIAL-MARITIME JOURNAL.
Fix this textPAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THE WEST INDIES.
Fix this textThe West Indies, as the arena on which the most fearful crimes that
Fix this textEngland ever committed, and as the theatre on which, (under the
Fix this textinfluence of Christian principles,) she expiated those crimes, by pro-
Fix this textclaiming freedom to the captive, and bidding the bond go free—must
Fix this textbe an object of solicitude to those true Christians, who so long laboured
Fix this textto purify their country from the foul stain of slavery, and whose holy
Fix this textefforts it has pleased an almighty Providence to crown with complete
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Fix this textThe past history of the West Indies is written in characters of
Fix this textblood. Murder and rapine—violence and fraud—licentiousness and
Fix this textcrime of every possible shade —the destruction of myriads of peace-
Fix this textable Indians—the importation of thirty million of unoffending Afri-
Fix this textcans, torn from their native land, to work in chains and degradation;
Fix this textmen made in the image of their Creator, u a little lower than the
Fix this textangels,” reduced to the condition of the beast of the field; sold as
Fix this textchattels, and slain if they murmured forth a claim on behalf of out-
Fix this textraged humanity;—all these constitute their annals, —while war and its
Fix this textfell concomitants, buccaneering and piracy, crimsoned the blue waters
Fix this textof those beautiful isles of the West, where
Fix this text“ All but the spirit of man was divine.”
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Fix this textscarcely credit; two centuries of unnamed deeds, of which the records
Fix this textof the world afford no parallel; two centuries of all that could make
Fix this textVOL. 11. NO. 7.
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