A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies: In a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British Dominions

By Anthony Benezet

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 8, 2020
• ISBN: 4064066066215

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Anthony Benezet

A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies

In a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British Dominions

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066066215

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A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British Dominions

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CAUTION

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WARNING

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TO

GREAT BRITAIN

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AND

Her Colonies,

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IN

A Short REPRESENTATION

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OF THE

CALAMITOUS STATE

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OF THE

Enslaved NEGROES

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in the British Dominions.

Collected from various Authors, and submitted to the Serious CONSIDERATION of ALL, more especially of THOSE in POWER.

By ANT. BENEZET

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PHILADELPHIA: Printed by Henry Miller, in Second-Street. M DCC LXVI.

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CAUTION AND WARNING &c.

At a time when the general rights and liberties of mankind, and the preservation of those valuable privileges transmitted to us from our ancestors, are become so much the subjects of universal consideration; can it be an inquiry indifferent to any, how many of those who distinguish themselves as the Advocates of Liberty, remain insensible and inattentive to the treatment of thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow-men, who, from motives of avarice, and the inexorable degree of tyrant custom, are at this very time kept in the most deplorable state of slavery, in many parts of the British Dominions.

The intent of publishing the following sheets, is more fully to make known the aggravated iniquity attending the practice of the Slave-Trade; whereby many thousands of our fellow-creatures, as free as ourselves by nature, and equally with us the subjects of Christ's redeeming grace, are yearly brought into inextricable and barbarous bondage; and many, very many, to miserable and untimely ends.

The truth of this lamentable complaint is so obvious to persons of candour, under whose notice it hath fallen, that several have lately published their sentiments thereon; as a matter which calls for the most serious consideration of all who are concerned for the civil or religious welfare of their country. How an evil of so deep a dye, hath so long, not only passed uninterrupted by Those in Power, but hath even had ​their countenance, is, indeed, surprising, and, charity would suppose, must, in a great measure, have arisen from this, that many persons in government, both of the Clergy and Laity, in whose power it hath been to put a stop to the Trade, have been unacquainted with the corrupt motives which gives life to it; and the groans, the dying groans, which daily ascend to God, the common Father of mankind, from the broken hearts of those his deeply