The Colonial magazine and East India review

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THE  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

SLAVERY AND ITS DEFENDERS.  

Friends in Council: series of Readings and Discourse thereon.  

Book the Second. London: Pickering. 1850.  

In our previous articles on the Slave-trade it has been assumed  

that, in this country at least, the practice of slavery has no  

defenders. That any one among us would dare to openly defend  

the accursed traffic is not, indeed, to be credited; but still there  

are numbers, even of humane men, who regard its suppression  

only in social point of view, and, whilst aiding in its extinction,  

cannot persuade themselves of its moral wrong. Too humane  

to sanction, even with word or look of approbation, the  

many cruelties that have disgraced, and still do disgrace, sla  

very, they flatter themselves that this cruelty is the mere acci  

dent, and not the necessary consequence, of the practice. Dis  

tasteful though the modern practice of slavery may be to their  

feelings and their thoughts, they cannot but admit that it is  

not unauthorised by the words of Holy and feel pressed  

with the apparent necessity for its existence when the climate  

and the work allotted to the slave is considered; and the inability  

of the white man to perform it, and the slave to execute the  

needful task without compulsion, is assumed with apparent  

reason. To them, in fine, slavery, as it is, is cruel and most  

detrimental to the social man. Its errors, however, are such as  

arise merely from practice; and they persuade themselves that it  

need not he cruel, that it is authorised by the highest autho  

rity, that it is necessary, and that, do what we will, it cannot be  

eradicated. For such as these, and they are more numerous  

than the world gives credit for, we would recommend the per  

usal of the latter part of the volume which we have prefixed to  

our artide, and from which we propose to extract largely.  

Under the form of dialogues on essays written by and read to  

the rest of the party by one of its members, the whole question  

VOL. XIX.; NO. IV.—OCTOBER, 1850.  

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