FOOTNOTES:
[1] It is supposed eighty thousand Negroes, are upon the Island of Barbadoes, and yet through the hard labour they exact of these poor creatures, and what of them are killed through their barbarous chastisements, a decrease is made of five thousand Slaves yearly, which they are resupplied with from Africa; and it may be reasonably expected, that the children eighty thousand Negroes would have, were they worked in the same manner with the white people, and did not so many of them die through hard labour, and from the treatment they suffer: I say, it may be expected, there would be an increase of ten thousand at a moderate computation yearly, instead of five thousand decreasing. One may form an idea from this, of what an additional supply most of the West-India Islands and Southern Provinces need, for there is not one of them but what import a considerable number of Slaves annually, to keep up their common stock.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg xvi:] ‘shonld have incurred’ replaced by ‘should have incurred’.
[Pg 17:] ‘base, unchristan’ replaced by ‘base, unchristian’.
[Pg 20:] ‘their opression’ replaced by ‘their oppression’.
[Pg 26:] ‘concerned ni the’ replaced by ‘concerned in the’.
[Pg 27:] Quote marks have been removed from the paragraph ‘As ... Trade.’.
[Pg 31:] ‘land of Egygt’ replaced by ‘land of Egypt’.
[Pg 34:] ‘out of Eygpt’ replaced by ‘out of Egypt’.
[Pg 40:] ‘and mark him’ replaced by ‘and marks him’.
[Pg 45:] ‘by the interposion’ replaced by ‘by the interposition’.
[Pg 52:] ‘and conton cloths’ replaced by ‘and cotton cloths’.
[Pg 56:] ‘and will coutinue’ replaced by ‘and will continue’.
[Pg 67:] ‘the istruments to’ replaced by ‘the instruments to’.
[Pg 69:] ‘the male-treatment of’ replaced by ‘the mal-treatment of’.
[Pg 70:] ‘your hardned hearts’ replaced by ‘your hardened hearts’.