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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Forerunners in the Abolition of the Slave Trade , unnoticed by Mr . Clarkson . Sir , June 7 , 1811 . I remember to have read of two writers , who , though of the Romish persuasion , yet examined wilh so much critical severity , the
holy Calendar of their church , that they were entitled Unroosters uf Saints . In a former letter , ( p . 285 , ) I ventured upon the best authority to displace Whitfidd from Mr . Clarkson ' s Calendar
ofForerunners , sluc ] arn how disposed to make such amends as the Unroosters * I dare sav , never thought of . Having met , quite accidentall y , with a few names , which , 1 believe , the Author of lie History of the Abolition will
readil y add to his cafalogue , I have great pleasure in offering ltom to his notice , through the medium of your Repository . I confine myself to the period before 1765 , when Mr . Sharp first agi-|^ d the question of Negro Slavery . Till that important » ra ,
jwre hints of disaffection to the slave Trade , or compassion for * e sufferers under its enormities , ! 8 " r upon this question was , for a ! ° ng time , only glimmering , but was a li ght shining in a dark PKe . Since that sera , with which "• Miarpe ' s name will be always
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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IJO . LXVllT ] AUGUST . [ Vol . xT
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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so honourably connected , it has happily required extraordinary zeal and opportunities of exertion to deserve any distinction . Mr . Clarkson , ( i . 44 , ) names u writers *' ., who , though c ' they have , not mentioned the African slave trade , " have yet virtually condemned it . To his instances may be added the following
The Sieur de Churron , who died at Paris in 1603 , thus be - gins the 48 th chapter of the- 1 st book of his celebrated work Of ' IVisdum . " The making l 1 S (^ of slaves , and the power of lords of masters over them , though it hath been a thing received ami practised in all places and all a ^ es of the world , ( except that it Avas considerably abated for about four hundred years , but now it hath since revived and obtained
a S aln » ) yet ' cannot forbear looking upon it as a monstrous custom and highly reproachful to human nature . Since brutes have nothing of this kind arnon *?
them ; nor do they either compel their fellows by violence and fraud , or voluntarily suhmit themselves to captivity . —Wisdom . Trans , 1729 . » i . 4 S 8 .
Algernon Sidney ^ in his Dis ~ courses concerning t Governmenty for which he was juridically murdered in 1683 , has not contemplated Negro Slavery . la the close
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/1/
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