Letters On Slavery Addressed to the Pro Slavery Men of America Showing Its Il

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Letters On Slavery Addressed to the Pro Slavery Men of America Showing Its Il
Edward Coit Rogers
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These were exchanged for " negroes and other merchandise, ''^ which were brought into the colony. They were the first slaves in New England.^ One of these was a captive African princess. This fact became known through the colony. It excited great disgust when it was * Wintlirop's Journal. See Col. Amer. Stat. Assoc, yol. 1, p. 200.
LETTERS TO heard how the brutal man who bought her treated her virtue. The people were aroused against the infamous institution. The whig friends of Massachusetts in
... the mother country protested=^ against the introduction of sla- very into the puritan colony. The Legislature of the col- ony then took in hand the abolition of the iniquity they had introduced, and passed laws forbidding any species of involuntary servitude. !
Shortly after this, a number of African captives were landed in the colony and sold. The flict was brought to the knowledge of the general court, whereupon they re- solved that, " conceiving themselves bound by the first opportunity to bear witness against the heinous and crying sin of man-stealing, as also to prescribe such timely redress for what is past, and such a law for the future as may sufficiently deter others belonging to us, to have to do in such vile and most odious courses, justly abhorred of all good and just men, do order that the negro interpreter, with others unlawfully taken, be, by the first opportunity, at the charge of the country, for the present, sent to his native country of Guinnea, and a letter with him of the indignation of the court thereabouts, and justice thereof^ Shortly after, Providence plantations and Warwick, passed acts against slavery.^ Thus while anti-slavery principles — the fundamental principles of society — were being carried out in the North-^ em colonies by English whig settlers, the Southern colo- nies, settled mostly by tories, were fastening upon the South that detestable system of robbery and oppression which is now sinking it beyond recovery.


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