An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African / Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions

For Dominique , (Footnote 107) read Domingue . N. B. A Latin note has been inserted by mistake, under the quotation of Diodorus Siculus (Footnote 017). The reader will find the original Greek of the same signification, in the same author, at page 49, Editio Stephani.
From an Hymn to the Morning . Aurora hail! and all the thousand dies, That deck thy progress through the vaulted skies! The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays. Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume. - - &c. &c.
From Thoughts on Imagination . Now here, now there, the roving fancy flies, Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes, Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind. Imagination! who can sing thy force, Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind: From star to star the mental opticks rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul. - - &c. &c.
A Description of Guinea, with an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, &c.-A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short Representation of the calamitous State of the enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. Besides several smaller pieces.
They had censured the African Trade in the year 1727, but had taken no publick notice of the colonial slavery till this time.
The instance of the Dutch colonists at the Cape, in the first part of the Essay; the description of an African battle, in the second; and the poetry of a negroe girl in the third, are the only considerable additions that have been made.
Genesis, Ch. 47. Leviticus XXV. v. 39, 40.
The Thetes appear very early in the Grecian History.--kai tines auto kouroi epont'Ithakes exairetoi; he eoi autou thentes te Dmoes(?) te; Od. Homer. D. 642. They were afterwards so much in use that, Murioi depou apedidonto eautous ose douleuein kata sungraphen, till Solon suppressed the custom in Athens.