BEACONSFIELD, Easter-Monday night, 1792.
SKETCH OF A NEGRO CODE.
This constitution consists of four principal members.
I. The rules for qualifying a ship for the African trade.
II. The mode of carrying on the trade upon the coast of Africa, which includes a plan for introducing civilization in that part of the world.
III. What is to be observed from the time of shipping negroes to the sale in the West India islands.
IV. The regulations relative to the state and condition of slaves in the West Indies, their manumission, &c.
PREAMBLE.Whereas it is expedient, and comformable to the principles of true religion and morality, and to the rules of sound policy, to put an end to all traffic in the persons of men, and to the detention of their said persons in a state of slavery, as soon as the same may be effected without producing great inconveniences in the sudden change of practices of such long standing, and during the time of the continuance of the said practices it is desirable and expedient by proper regulations to lessen the inconveniences and evils attendant on the said traffic and state of servitude, until both shall be gradually done away: