An Essay On the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade
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This mortality is to be attributed to two caufes ; partly to the uncertainty of the trade, which makes the long and conftant ufe of thefe boats fo neceflary j and partly to the climate. In the trade propofed, no fuch uncertainty would be found. The feafons for the different crops, (not like the feafons for human flefh) would be periodical and regular. Storc-houfes would be built at convenient places. The natives African Slave Trade. 69 natives up the river would bring down their produce in thei...r canoes. The ufe of open boats would in this refpect be precluded, and one of the caufes of the prefent lofs would be removed. With refpet. To the climate, it requires but little know- ledge or experience to fay, that it may be fubje&ed to human art. Other countries, now civilized were for- merly inhofpitable to ftrangers, but haye become habita- ble by all. Such would be the cafe with the regions of Africa in the new intercourfe pointed out. For if the country, which is now a foreft, were cleared j if the lands were put into cultivation, if the fwamps were drained, and fuch other events were to take place, as would be the certain effects of eftablifhing the trade propofed, the caufes of this mortality to ftrangers would gradually decreafe, the dews would be moderated, the rains and tornadoes become lefs frequent and violent, and the climate be as healthy as any other in any region of the globe.
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